ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Find PDF Table And Extract As CSV with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to code in C# to find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

This sample source code below will display you how to find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK in 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 and you can use it to find PDF table and extract as CSV with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TableDetector instance
            TableDetector tableDetector = new TableDetector();
            tableDetector.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            tableDetector.RegistrationName = "demo";

            // Set table detection mode to "bordered tables" - best for tables with closed solid borders.
            tableDetector.ColumnDetectionMode = ColumnDetectionMode.BorderedTables;

            // We should define what kind of tables we should detect.
            // So we set min required number of columns to 3 ...
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfColumns = 3;
            // ... and we set min required number of rows to 3
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfRows = 3;

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

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

            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                int t = 1;
                // Find first table and continue if found
                if (tableDetector.FindTable(i))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Set extraction area for CSV extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                        csvExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation);
                        // Export the table to CSV file
                        csvExtractor.SavePageCSVToFile(i, "page-" + i + "-table-" + t + ".csv");
                        t++;
                    } 
                    while (tableDetector.FindNextTable()); // search next table
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
            csvExtractor.Dispose();
            tableDetector.Dispose();

            // Open first output file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("page-0-table-1.csv");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}