ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Convert Protected PDF Document to XLS with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to convert protected PDF document to XLS with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

This code in C# shows how to convert protected PDF document to XLS with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

An easy to understand guide on how to convert protected PDF document to XLS with PDF extractor SDK in C# with this source code sample. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript. It can be applied to convert protected PDF document to XLS with PDF extractor SDK using C#.

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Program.cs

      using System.IO;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace PDF2XLS
{
    //
    // This example demonstrates how to provide password for protected PDF files.
    //
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.XLSExtractor instance
            XLSExtractor extractor = new XLSExtractor();
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            File.Delete("output.xls");

            // Document Password Can be set in two ways
            // 1. Using Property
            // 2. Using Events

            // 1. Handle document password using Property
            // extractor.Password = "password"

            // 2. Handle document password using Event
            extractor.PasswordRequired += new System.EventHandler(extractor_PasswordRequired);

            // Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\encrypted (password is 'password').pdf");

            // Set the output format to XLS
            extractor.OutputFormat = SpreadseetOutputFormat.XLS;
            
            // Save the spreadsheet to file
            extractor.SaveToXLSFile("output.xls");

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.xls");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }

        static void extractor_PasswordRequired(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            // Ask user for password and put it to `Password` property.
            ((XLSExtractor) sender).Password = "password";
        }
    }
}