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

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

This code in C# shows how to find PDF table and extract as XML with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

We made thousands of pre-made source code pieces for easy implementation in your own programming projects. Want to find PDF table and extract as XML 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.

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 XML with PDF extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

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

            // 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
            xmlExtractor.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 XML extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                        xmlExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation);
                        // Export the table to XML file
                        xmlExtractor.SavePageXMLToFile(i, "page-" + i + "-table-" + t + ".xml");
                        t++;
                    } 
                    while (tableDetector.FindNextTable()); // search next table
                }
            }

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

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