ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Split Document

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How to split document in VB.NET with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

This tutorial will show how to split document in VB.NET

Sample source code below will show you how to cope with a difficult task like split document in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK is designed to help developers with pdf tables and pdf data extraction from unstructured documents like pdf, tiff, scans, images, scanned and electronic forms. The library is powered by OCR, computer vision and AI to provide unique functionality like table detection, automatic table structure extraction, data restoration, data restructuring and reconstruction. Supports PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG images as input and can output CSV, XML, JSON formatted data. Includes full set of utilities like pdf splitter, pdf merger, searchable pdf maker and other utilities. It can be used to split document using VB.NET.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VB.NET code from ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for split document below and use it in your application. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! You can use these VB.NET sample examples in one or many applications.

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Program.vb

      ' This example demonstrates various PDF document splitting scenarios:
' - extract a single page;
' - split in two parts;
' - split by ranges specified in text form: "1-5,6,7-10,11-".

Imports System.IO
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program

    Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

        Dim inputFile As String = "sample.pdf"

        Using splitter As New DocumentSplitter("demo", "demo")

            splitter.OptimizeSplittedDocuments = True

            ' Extracting specific page:
            ' =========================

            splitter.ExtractPage(inputFile, "page3.pdf", 3)
            ' (!) Note: page number is 1-based.
            Console.WriteLine("Extracted page 3 to file ""page3.pdf""")
            Console.WriteLine()

            ' Split in two parts:
            ' ===================

            splitter.Split(inputFile, "part1.pdf", "part2.pdf", 3)
            ' (!) Note: page number is 1-based.
            Console.WriteLine("Splitted at page 3 to files ""part1.pdf"" and ""part2.pdf""")
            Console.WriteLine()

            ' Split by ranges:
            ' ================

            Dim files As String() = splitter.Split(inputFile, "1-3,4-6,7,8-")
            ' (!) Note: page numbers are 1-based; ending "-" means "to the end".
            Console.WriteLine("Splitted by ranges: ")
            For Each file As String In files
                Console.WriteLine("    " & Path.GetFileName(file))
            Next
            
        End Using

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key...")
        Console.ReadKey()

    End Sub

End Class