ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk

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How to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. 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. It can be applied to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk using VB.NET.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Simply copy and paste in your VB.NET project or application you and then run your app! If you want to use these VB.NET sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Xml

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        ' Create XMLExtractor instance
        Dim extractor As XMLExtractor = New XMLExtractor()
        extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
        extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

        ' Load sample PDF document
        extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\filled_form.pdf")

        ' Get PDF document text as XML
        Dim xmlText As String = extractor.GetXML()

        ' Load XML
        Dim xmlDocument As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument()
        XmlDocument.LoadXml(XmlText)

        ' Select all "control" nodes
        Dim formControls As XmlNodeList = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//control")
        If (formControls IsNot Nothing) Then

            For Each formControl As XmlNode In formControls

                Dim typeAttribute = formControl.Attributes("type")

                If (typeAttribute.Value = "editbox") Then
                    ' Show filled textboxes
                    If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(formControl.InnerText)) Then
                        Console.WriteLine("EDITBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.InnerText)
                    End If
                ElseIf (typeAttribute.Value = "checkbox") Then
                    ' Show checked checkboxes
                    If (formControl.Attributes("state").Value = "1") Then
                        Console.WriteLine("CHECKBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.Attributes("state").Value)
                    End If
                End If

            Next formControl

        End If

        ' Cleanup
        extractor.Dispose()


        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key...")
        Console.ReadKey()

    End Sub

End Module