ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract Table Structure from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

This sample source code below will display you how to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#. 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 and you can use it to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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Program.cs

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

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

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample3.pdf");

            for (int pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < extractor.GetPageCount(); pageIndex++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Starting extraction from page #" + pageIndex);
                Console.WriteLine();

                extractor.PrepareStructure(pageIndex);

                int rowCount = extractor.GetRowCount(pageIndex);

                for (int row = 0; row < rowCount; row++)
                {
                    int columnCount = extractor.GetColumnCount(pageIndex, row);

                    for (int col = 0; col < columnCount; col++)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(extractor.GetCellValue(pageIndex, row, col));
                    }
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key..");
            Console.ReadKey();
		}
	}
}