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

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

Learn to make searchable PDF 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 with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Premium Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to make searchable PDF 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! If you want to use these C# sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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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 PDF document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.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;

            // 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);
        }
    }
}