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How to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to code in C# to extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

ByteScout simple and easy to understand tutorials are planned to describe the code for both C# beginners and advanced programmers. ByteScout Premium Suite: the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can extract PDF text from page area with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Premium Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Drawing;

namespace ExtractTextFromPageArea
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Define rectangle location to extract from
                RectangleF location = new RectangleF(0, 0, 200, 200);
                
                // Set extraction area
                extractor.SetExtractionArea(location);

                // Extract text from the extraction area
                string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
                
                Console.WriteLine("Extracted from page #" + i + ":");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(text);

                // Reset the extraction area
                extractor.ResetExtractionArea();

                Console.WriteLine();
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}