ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract PDF text To Stream with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract PDF text to stream with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

How to write a robust code in C# to extract PDF text to stream with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

The coding instructions are formulated to help you to try-out the features without the requirement to write your own code. 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 extract PDF text to stream with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to extract PDF text to stream with PDF extractor SDK. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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Program.cs

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

namespace ExtractToStream
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample1.pdf");

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

            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Create new stream. You can use MemoryStream or any other System.IO.Stream inheritor.
                FileStream stream = new FileStream(@".\page" + i + ".txt", FileMode.Create);
                
                // Save text from page to the file stream
                extractor.SavePageTextToStream(i, stream);

                // Close stream
                stream.Dispose();
            }

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

            // Open first output file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@".\page1.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}