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

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How to make searchable pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

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

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. ByteScout PDF Suite can make searchable pdf with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VB.NET. 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly make searchable pdf with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instructions. 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

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.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

        ' 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