ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB6 – Convert PDF To CSV (Merge multiline text to table cell)

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How to convert PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in VB6 with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

This tutorial will show how to convert PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in VB6

Every ByteScout tool contains example VB6 source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. 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 and you can use it to convert PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) with VB6.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for VB6 plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to convert PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell). In your VB6 project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VB6 codes.

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Form1.frm

      VERSION 5.00
Begin VB.Form Form1 
   Caption         =   "PDF to CSV"
   ClientHeight    =   1095
   ClientLeft      =   120
   ClientTop       =   465
   ClientWidth     =   3675
   LinkTopic       =   "Form1"
   ScaleHeight     =   1095
   ScaleWidth      =   3675
   StartUpPosition =   3  'Windows Default
   Begin VB.CommandButton cmd_pdf_to_csv 
      Caption         =   "Convert PDF to CSV (Merge multiline text to single cell)"
      Height          =   855
      Left            =   120
      TabIndex        =   0
      Top             =   120
      Width           =   3495
   End
End
Attribute VB_Name = "Form1"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False

Private Sub cmd_pdf_to_csv_Click()
    
    ' Hanlde Error
    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
    
    ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor object
    Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor")
    
    ' Set Registration name and key
    extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
    extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"
  
    ' Load sample PDF document
    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile "sample3_multiline.pdf"
    
    ' For multiline cell join extracted cell text into single line
    extractor.LineGroupingMode = 1 'LineGroupingMode.GroupByRows
    extractor.Unwrap = True
    
    ' Peform Save to CSV file
    extractor.SaveCSVToFile "output.csv"
    
    ' Show Success Message
    MsgBox "Extracted data saved to 'output.csv' file.", vbInformation, "Success"
    
    ' Close form
    Unload Me
    
ErrorHandler:
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
    MsgBox Err.Description, vbInformation, "Error"
End If

End Sub

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PDF_To_CSV_MergeMultilineTextToCell.vbp

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Form=Form1.frm
Startup="Form1"
Command32=""
Name="PDFToCSV"
HelpContextID="0"
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VersionCompanyName="Hiren"
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NoAliasing=0
BoundsCheck=0
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FDIVCheck=0
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Unattended=0
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