ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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How to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET 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 extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VB.NET below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program
	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

		' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
		Dim extractor As New TextExtractor()
		extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
		extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

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

		' Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
		extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

		' Save extracted text to file
		extractor.SaveTextToFile(".\result.txt")

		' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()

		' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
		System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\result.txt")
		
	End Sub
End Class