ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk

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How to make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

On this page you will learn from code samples for programming in VB.NET.Writing of the code to make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET can be executed by programmers of any level using ByteScout PDF Suite. ByteScout PDF Suite can make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from 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.

These VB.NET code samples for VB.NET guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout PDF Suite. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Applying VB.NET application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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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 Image document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg")

        ' 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

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

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        Dim processStartInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf")
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(processStartInfo)

    End Sub

End Module