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How to apply ByteScout PDF Suite for ocr analyser for pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript

Every ByteScout tool includes sampleVBScript source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. ByteScout PDF Suite was created to assist ocr analyser for pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript. 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.

Save time on writing and testing code by using the code below and use it in your application. If you want to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. VBScript application implementation mostly involves various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please check it with your data and the production environment.

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PerformOcrAnalysisAndExtractText.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates the use of OCR Analyser - a tooling class for analysis of scanned documents
' in PDF or raster image formats to find best parameters for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that
' provide highest recognition quality.


' Input document
inputDocument = "..\..\sample_ocr.pdf"

' Document page index
pageIndex = 0

' Location of OCR language data files
ocrLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata_best\"

' OCR language
ocrLanguage = "eng" ' "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder
' Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata


' Create OCRAnalyzer object and activate it with your registration information
Set ocrAnalyzer = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRAnalyzer")
ocrAnalyzer.RegistrationName = "demo"
ocrAnalyzer.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load document to OCRAnalyzer
ocrAnalyzer.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument)

' Setup OCRAnalyzer
ocrAnalyzer.OCRLanguage = ocrLanguage
ocrAnalyzer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = ocrLanguageDataFolder

WScript.Echo "Starting the OCR analysis. Click OK and wait, it may last long." & outputDocument

' Perform analysis and get results
Set analysisResults = ocrAnalyzer.AnalyzeByOCRConfidence(pageIndex)


' Now extract page text using detected OCR parameters

outputDocument = ".\result.txt"

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

' Load document to TextExtractor
textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument)

' Setup TextExtractor
textExtractor.OCRMode = 1 ' OCRMode.Auto
textExtractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = ocrLanguageDataFolder
textExtractor.OCRLanguage = ocrLanguage

' Apply analysys results to TextExtractor instance
ocrAnalyzer.ApplyResults (analysisResults), (textExtractor)

' Save extracted text to file
textExtractor.SaveTextToFile(outputDocument)


WScript.Echo "Extracted text saved to " & outputDocument


Set textExtractor = Nothing
Set ocrAnalyzer = Nothing