ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Extract Text By Columns from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The code displayed below will guide you to install an C# app to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. ByteScout Premium Suite can extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

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Program.cs

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

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

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

            // Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
            extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true;

            // Save extracted text to file
            extractor.SaveTextToFile(@".\result.txt");

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

            // Open result file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@".\result.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}