ByteScout PDF Suite – Microsoft Excel – Extract Text From Coordinates from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout PDF Suite – Microsoft Excel – Extract Text From Coordinates from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in Microsoft Excel with ByteScout PDF Suite

This code in Microsoft Excel shows how to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

The sample shows instructions and algorithm of how to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK and how to make it run in your Microsoft Excel application. 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. It can be applied to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK using Microsoft Excel.

This prolific sample source code in Microsoft Excel for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the Microsoft Excel code. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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ExtractTextFromPDF_VBA.txt

      ' IMPORTANT: This demo uses VBA so if you have it disabled please temporary enable
' by going to Tools - Macro - Security.. and changing the security mode to ""Medium""
' to Ask if you want enable macro or not. Then close and reopen this Excel document

' You should have evaluation version of the ByteScout SDK installed to get it working - get it from https://bytescout.com

' If you are getting error message like
' "File or assembly named Bytescout SDK, or one of its dependencies, was not found"
' then please try the following:
'
' - Close Excel
' - (for Office 2003 only) download and install this hotfix from Microsoft:
' http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B0BFB35-C252-43CC-8A2A-6A64D6AC4670&displaylang=en
'
' and then try again!
'
' If you have any questions please contact us at https://bytescout.com/support/ or at support@bytescout.com
                            

'==============================================
'References used
'=================
'Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK
'
' IMPORTANT:
' ==============================================================
'1) Add the ActiveX reference in Tools -> References
'
'==================================================================


Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

' Create TextExtractor object
' Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
Dim extractor As New Bytescout_PDFExtractor.TextExtractor

extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile ("c:\sample1.pdf")

' Get page count
pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount()

Dim wb As Workbook
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim TxtRng  As Range

Set wb = ActiveWorkbook
Set ws = wb.Sheets("Sheet1")

For i = 0 To pageCount - 1
            RectLeft = 10
            RectTop = 10
            RectWidth = 100
            RectHeight = 100

            ' check the same text is extracted from returned coordinates
            extractor.SetExtractionArea RectLeft, RectTop, RectWidth, RectHeight
            ' extract text from given area
            extractedText = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i)
                    
            ' insert rows
            ' Rows(1).Insert shift:=xlShiftDown
            ' write cell value
             Set TxtRng = ws.Range("A" & CStr(i + 2))
             TxtRng.Value = extractedText
    
Next

Set extractor = Nothing


End Sub