ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VBScript – Index PDF Files

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How to index PDF files in VBScript using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

This code in VBScript shows how to index PDF files with this how to tutorial

Index PDF files is easy to implement in VBScript if you use these source codes below. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the Software Development Kit (SDK) that is designed to help developers with 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. It can be used to index PDF files using 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 index PDF files. 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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Index PDF Files.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.InfoExtractor object
Set infoExtractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.InfoExtractor")
infoExtractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
infoExtractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set textExtractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
textExtractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
textExtractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Create File System object
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Get folder object
Set objFolder = FSO.GetFolder("..\..")
' Get file list
Set files = objFolder.Files

' Create output file
Set textFile = FSO.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

For Each file in files
    
    ext = UCase(FSO.GetExtensionName(file))	
    If ext = "PDF" Then
        
        infoExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(file)    
        textFile.WriteLine("File Name:    " & FSO.GetFileName(file))
        textFile.WriteLine("Page Count:   " & infoExtractor.GetPageCount())
        textFile.WriteLine("Author:       " & infoExtractor.Author)
        textFile.WriteLine("Title:        " & infoExtractor.Title)
        textFile.WriteLine("Producer:     " & infoExtractor.Producer)
        textFile.WriteLine("Subject:      " & infoExtractor.Subject)
        textFile.WriteLine("CreationDate: " & infoExtractor.CreationDate)
                
        textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(file)
        text = textExtractor.GetTextFromPage(0)
        
        If len(text) > 0 Then
            textFile.WriteLine("Text (first 200 chars): ")
            textFile.WriteLine(Mid(text, 1, 200))
        End If
        
        textFile.WriteBlankLines(2)
    End If 
    
Next

textFile.Close

Set infoExtractor = Nothing
Set textExtractor = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing

WScript.Echo "Done."