ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk

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How to merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

This sample source code below will display you how to merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Suite: 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 merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly merge protected pdf documents with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Diagnostics

Class Program

	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

        Dim inputFiles As String() = New String() {"encrypted1 (password is 'password').pdf", "encrypted2 (password is 'password').pdf"}

        Using merger As New DocumentMerger("demo", "demo")

            ' Handle `PasswordRequired` event
            AddHandler merger.PasswordRequired, New PasswordEventHandler(AddressOf merger_PasswordRequired)

            ' Ignore document permissions
            merger.CheckPermissions = False

            merger.Merge(inputFiles, "result.pdf")
        End Using

        Process.Start("result.pdf")

    End Sub

    Private Shared Sub merger_PasswordRequired(sender As Object, document As String, ByRef password As String)
        ' Set document password here
        password = "password"
    End Sub
End Class