ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Make Searchable PDF from Image with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example C# source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout Premium Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. 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 MakeSearchablePDF
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
            SearchablePDFMaker searchablePDFMaker = new SearchablePDFMaker();
            searchablePDFMaker.RegistrationName = "demo";
            searchablePDFMaker.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Load sample Image document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg");
            
            // Set the location of OCR 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;

            // 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);
        }
    }
}