ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract PDF Text From Page Area with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The sample source codes on this page shows how to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C#. Want to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in your C# app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. 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.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

You can download free trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite from our website to see and try many others source code samples for C#.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Drawing;

namespace ExtractTextFromPageArea
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Define rectangle location to extract from
                RectangleF location = new RectangleF(0, 0, 200, 200);
                
                // Set extraction area
                extractor.SetExtractionArea(location);

                // Extract text from the extraction area
                string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
                
                Console.WriteLine("Extracted from page #" + i + ":");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(text);

                // Reset the extraction area
                extractor.ResetExtractionArea();

                Console.WriteLine();
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}