ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Convert PDF To XML With Images

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Convert PDF To XML With Images

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How to convert PDF to XML with images in VBScript using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to convert PDF to XML with images in VBScript

The sample shows steps and algorithm of how to convert PDF to XML with images and how to make it work in your VBScript application. 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 convert PDF to XML with images in VBScript.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for VBScript plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to convert PDF to XML with images. This VBScript 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! Implementing VBScript application typically includes multiple stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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PdfToXmlWithImages.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.XMLExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.XMLExtractor")

extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile "../../sample1.pdf"

' Uncomment this line to get rid of empty nodes in XML
'extractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = False

' Set output image format
extractor.ImageFormat = 0 ' 0 = PNG; 1 = JPEG; 2 = GIF; 3 = BMP

' Save images to external files
extractor.SaveImages = 1 ' 1 = ImageHandling.OuterFile
extractor.ImageFolder = "images" ' Folder for external images
extractor.SaveXMLToFile "result_with_external_images.xml"

' Embed images into XML as Base64 encoded string
extractor.SaveImages = 2 ' 2 = ImageHandling.Embed
extractor.SaveXMLToFile "result_with_embedded_images.xml"

WScript.Echo "Done."