ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Read form values from pdf form with pdf sdk

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How to read form values from pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to read form values from pdf form with pdf sdk in VB.NET

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. Want to read form values from pdf form with pdf sdk in your VB.NET app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly read form values from pdf form with pdf sdk in your VB.NET application. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instructions. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDF

''' <summary>
''' This example demonstrates how to get PDF form values programmatically.
''' </summary>
Class Program

    Shared Sub Main()

        ' Load PDF form
        Dim pdfDocument = New Document("form.pdf")
        pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
		pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

        Dim page = pdfDocument.Pages(0)

        ' Get widget by its name and get value
        Dim box1 = DirectCast(page.Annotations("editBox1"), EditBox).Text
        Dim box2 = DirectCast(page.Annotations("editBox2"), EditBox).Text
        Dim checkBox1 = DirectCast(page.Annotations("checkBox1"), CheckBox).Checked

        ' Cleanup 
		pdfDocument.Dispose()

        ' Writing values to console
        Console.WriteLine("Form values are as follows:")
        Console.WriteLine(box1)
        Console.WriteLine(box2)
        Console.WriteLine(checkBox1)

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit....")
        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

End Class