ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find PDF Table And Extract As CSV with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

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

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 and you can use it to find PDF table and extract as CSV 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 find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TableDetector instance
            TableDetector tableDetector = new TableDetector();
            tableDetector.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            tableDetector.RegistrationName = "demo";

            // Set table detection mode to "bordered tables" - best for tables with closed solid borders.
            tableDetector.ColumnDetectionMode = ColumnDetectionMode.BorderedTables;

            // We should define what kind of tables we should detect.
            // So we set min required number of columns to 3 ...
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfColumns = 3;
            // ... and we set min required number of rows to 3
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfRows = 3;

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

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

            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                int t = 1;
                // Find first table and continue if found
                if (tableDetector.FindTable(i))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Set extraction area for CSV extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                        csvExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation);
                        // Export the table to CSV file
                        csvExtractor.SavePageCSVToFile(i, "page-" + i + "-table-" + t + ".csv");
                        t++;
                    } 
                    while (tableDetector.FindNextTable()); // search next table
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
            csvExtractor.Dispose();
            tableDetector.Dispose();

            // Open first output file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("page-0-table-1.csv");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}