ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Extraction From Complex Borderless Tables

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Extraction From Complex Borderless Tables

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extraction from complex borderless tables in VBScript with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

What is ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK? It 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.

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ExtractionFromComplexBorderlessTables.vbs

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

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

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

' Set extraction columns explicitly.
' Coordinates in CustomExtractionColumns must match the left edges of the columns.
' To get coordinates in PDF points you can use PDF Multitool application 
' installed with the SDK. It shows mouse cursor coodinates in PDF points in the toolbar.
Dim coordinates
coordinates = Array(0, 124.5, 185, 241)

extractor.SetCustomExtractionColumns(coordinates)

extractor.SaveCSVToFile "output.csv"

WScript.Echo "Extracted data saved to 'output.csv' file."