ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Extract Table Structure from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in C# to extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

The coding instructions are formulated to help you to try-out the features without the requirement to write your own code. ByteScout Premium Suite can extract table structure from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Premium Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

You can download free trial version of ByteScout Premium Suite from our website with this and other source code samples for C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System;

namespace TableStructure
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.StructuredExtractor instance
			StructuredExtractor extractor = new StructuredExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample3.pdf");

            for (int pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < extractor.GetPageCount(); pageIndex++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Starting extraction from page #" + pageIndex);
                Console.WriteLine();

                extractor.PrepareStructure(pageIndex);

                int rowCount = extractor.GetRowCount(pageIndex);

                for (int row = 0; row < rowCount; row++)
                {
                    int columnCount = extractor.GetColumnCount(pageIndex, row);

                    for (int col = 0; col < columnCount; col++)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(extractor.GetCellValue(pageIndex, row, col));
                    }
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key..");
            Console.ReadKey();
		}
	}
}