ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract Text By Columns from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Extract Text By Columns from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. Want to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in your C# app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products 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 following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Check C# sample code samples to see if they respond to your needs and requirements for the project.

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Program.cs

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

namespace ExtractTextByColumns
{
    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(@".\columns.pdf");

            // Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
            extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true;

            // Save extracted text to file
            extractor.SaveTextToFile(@".\result.txt");

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

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