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The documentation is crafted to assist you to apply the features on your side easily. ByteScout PDF Suite was made to help with pdf ocr (optical character recognition) with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript. 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 below SDK samples describe how to quickly make your application do pdf ocr (optical character recognition) with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. If you want to know how it works, then this VBScript sample code should be copied and pasted into your application’s code editor. Then just compile and run it. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

If you want to try other samples for VBScript then free trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite is available on our website.

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ExtractTextFromImageOrScannedPdfUsingOcr.vbs
      
' This example demonstrates the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text ' from scanned PDF documents and raster images. ' Create TextExtractor object Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor") extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\sample_ocr.pdf") ' Enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extractor.OCRMode = 1 ' OCRMode.Auto = 1 ' Set the location of OCR language data files extractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata" ' Set OCR language ' "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder. extractor.OCRLanguage = "eng" ' Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata ' Set PDF document rendering resolution extractor.OCRResolution = 300 ' You can also apply various preprocessing filters to improve the recognition on low-quality scans. ' But they significantly hit the performance, so do not enable them by default. ' Automatically deskew skewed scans 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDeskew() ' Remove vertical or horizontal lines (sometimes helps to avoid OCR engine's page segmentation errors) 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddVerticalLinesRemover() 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddHorizontalLinesRemover() ' Repair broken letters 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDilate() ' Remove noise 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddMedian() ' Apply Gamma Correction 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddGammaCorrection() ' Add Contrast ' extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddContrast(20) ' (!) You can use new OCRAnalyzer class to find an optimal set of image preprocessing ' filters for your specific document. ' See "OCR Analyser" example. ' Save extracted text to file extractor.SaveTextToFile("output.txt") WScript.Echo "Extracted text saved as 'output.txt'." Set extractor = Nothing

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