ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Reduce Memory Usage for PDF to Text with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to reduce memory usage for PDF to text with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to reduce memory usage for PDF to text with PDF extractor SDK in C#

This sample source code below will display you how to reduce memory usage for PDF to text with PDF extractor SDK in C#. ByteScout PDF Suite can reduce memory usage for PDF to text with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from C#. 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 SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do reduce memory usage for PDF to text with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. 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 System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace ReduceMemoryUsage
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // When processing huge PDF documents you may run into OutOfMemoryException.
            // This example demonstrates a way to spare the memory by disabling page data caching.

            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
            using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo"))
            {
                try
                {
                    // Load sample PDF document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf");

                    // Disable page data caching, so processed pages wiil be disposed automatically
                    extractor.PageDataCaching = PageDataCaching.None;

                    // Save extracted text to file
                    extractor.SaveTextToFile("output.txt");
                }
                catch (PDFExtractorException exception)
                {
                    Console.Write(exception.ToString());
                }
            }

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}