ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Make Searchable PDF from Image with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The code displayed below will guide you to install an C# app to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK. Want to make searchable PDF from image 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.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the C# code from ByteScout PDF Suite for make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK below and use it in your application. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

// To make OCR work you should references "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll" and "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRExtension.dll" from your project.

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

            // Load sample Image document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg");
            
            // Set the location of OCR language data files
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\";

            // Set OCR language
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder

            // Set PDF document rendering resolution
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRResolution = 300;

            // Save extracted text to file
            searchablePDFMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf");

            // Cleanup
            searchablePDFMaker.Dispose();

            // Open output file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}