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How to make searchable PDF discarding existing content with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to make searchable PDF discarding existing content with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The documentation is designed for a specific purpose to help you to apply the features on your side. 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 make searchable PDF discarding existing content with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to make searchable PDF discarding existing content with PDF extractor SDK. 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! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

// To make OCR work you should references "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll" and "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRExtension.dll" from your project.

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

            // Load sample PDF document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_withText.pdf");
            
            // Set the location of language data files
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\";

            // Set OCR language
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder

            // Set PDF document rendering resolution
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRResolution = 300;

            // Discard Existing Text in document
            searchablePDFMaker.DiscardExistingDocumentText = true;

            // Save extracted text to file
            searchablePDFMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf");

            // Cleanup
            searchablePDFMaker.Dispose();

            // Open output file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}