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How to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout PDF Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It 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 help you to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application.

This prolific sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk. Simply copy and paste in your VB.NET project or application you and then run your app! Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

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

        ' Load sample PDF document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_withText.pdf")

        ' 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

        ' Discard Existing Text in document
        searchablePdfMaker.DiscardExistingDocumentText = True

        ' Save extracted text to file
        searchablePdfMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf")

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.pdf")

    End Sub

End Module