ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Extract Table Structure from PDF

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Extract Table Structure from PDF

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How to extract table structure from PDF in VBScript and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

This code in VBScript shows how to extract table structure from PDF with this how to tutorial

This sample source code below will demonstrate you how to extract table structure from PDF in VBScript. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK: 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 extract table structure from PDF in VBScript.

This rich sample source code in VBScript for ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to extract table structure from PDF. 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! You can use these VBScript sample examples in one or many applications.

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ExtractTabledStructure.vbs

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

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

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile "../../sample3.pdf"
           
For ipage = 0 To extractor.GetPageCount() - 1 

    ' starting extraction from page #"
    extractor.PrepareStructure ipage

    rowCount = extractor.GetRowCount(ipage)
    
    For row = 0 To rowCount - 1 
        columnCount = extractor.GetColumnCount(ipage, row)

        For col = 0 To columnCount-1
            WScript.Echo "Cell at page #" +CStr(ipage) + ", row=" & CStr(row) & ", column=" & _
                CStr(col) & vbCRLF & extractor.GetCellValue(ipage, row, col)
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