ByteScout PDF Suite – VBScript – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout PDF Suite – VBScript – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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How to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript using ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript. 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 extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript 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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ExtractTextByColumns.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\columns.pdf")

' Set the column layout mode
extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

' Save extracted text to file
extractor.SaveTextToFile("result.txt")

' Open output file in default associated application
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.txt", 1, false
Set shell = Nothing

Set extractor = Nothing