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

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

This code in C# shows how to find PDF table and extract as XML with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

The sample source codes on this page shows how to find PDF table and extract as XML 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. It can find PDF table and extract as XML with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do find PDF table and extract as XML with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout Premium Suite. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

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

            // 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
            xmlExtractor.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 XML extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                        xmlExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation);
                        // Export the table to XML file
                        xmlExtractor.SavePageXMLToFile(i, "page-" + i + "-table-" + t + ".xml");
                        t++;
                    } 
                    while (tableDetector.FindNextTable()); // search next table
                }
            }

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

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