ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Get Word Coordinates in XML

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Get Word Coordinates in XML

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How to get word coordinates in XML in VBScript with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

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.

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PdfToXml.vbs

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

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile "../../sample3.pdf"

' Add the following params to get clean data with word nodes only:
extractor.DetectNewColumnBySpacesRatio = 0.1 ' this splits all text into words
extractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = false ' get rid of empty nodes

extractor.SaveXMLToFile "output.xml"

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