ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Detect Lines in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to detect lines in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in C# to detect lines in PDF with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

The sample source codes on this page shows how to detect lines in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#. Want to detect lines in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in your C# app? ByteScout Premium Suite is designed for it. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to detect lines in PDF with PDF extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace DetectLines
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.LineDetector instance
            LineDetector lineDetector = new LineDetector();
            lineDetector.RegistrationName = "demo";
            lineDetector.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            
            // Load sample PDF document
            lineDetector.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");

            FoundLinesCollection foundLines = lineDetector.FindLines(1, LineOrientationsToFind.HorizontalAndVertical);

            Console.WriteLine("Number of lines found: " + foundLines.Count);
            
            for (int i = 0; i < foundLines.Count; i++)
            {
                FoundLine line = foundLines[i];

                Console.WriteLine("Line # " + i);
                
                // Line Orientation
                Console.WriteLine("LineOrientation: " + line.LineOrientation);

                // Starting point of the line
                Console.WriteLine("From point: " + line.From);

                // Ending point of the line
                Console.WriteLine("To point: " + line.To);

                // Line width
                Console.WriteLine("Width: " + line.Width);
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}