ByteScout Premium Suite – Microsoft Excel – Extract Text From Coordinates from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Premium Suite – Microsoft Excel – Extract Text From Coordinates from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in Microsoft Excel with ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in Microsoft Excel to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

The code displayed below will guide you to install an Microsoft Excel app to extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. ByteScout Premium Suite: the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in Microsoft Excel.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly extract text from coordinates from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in your Microsoft Excel application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the Microsoft Excel code. Use of ByteScout Premium Suite in Microsoft Excel is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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ExtractTextFromPDF_VBA.txt

      ' IMPORTANT: This demo uses VBA so if you have it disabled please temporary enable
' by going to Tools - Macro - Security.. and changing the security mode to ""Medium""
' to Ask if you want enable macro or not. Then close and reopen this Excel document

' You should have evaluation version of the ByteScout SDK installed to get it working - get it from https://bytescout.com

' If you are getting error message like
' "File or assembly named Bytescout SDK, or one of its dependencies, was not found"
' then please try the following:
'
' - Close Excel
' - (for Office 2003 only) download and install this hotfix from Microsoft:
' http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B0BFB35-C252-43CC-8A2A-6A64D6AC4670&displaylang=en
'
' and then try again!
'
' If you have any questions please contact us at https://bytescout.com/support/ or at support@bytescout.com
                            

'==============================================
'References used
'=================
'Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK
'
' IMPORTANT:
' ==============================================================
'1) Add the ActiveX reference in Tools -> References
'
'==================================================================


Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

' Create TextExtractor object
' Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
Dim extractor As New Bytescout_PDFExtractor.TextExtractor

extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile ("c:\sample1.pdf")

' Get page count
pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount()

Dim wb As Workbook
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim TxtRng  As Range

Set wb = ActiveWorkbook
Set ws = wb.Sheets("Sheet1")

For i = 0 To pageCount - 1
            RectLeft = 10
            RectTop = 10
            RectWidth = 100
            RectHeight = 100

            ' check the same text is extracted from returned coordinates
            extractor.SetExtractionArea RectLeft, RectTop, RectWidth, RectHeight
            ' extract text from given area
            extractedText = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i)
                    
            ' insert rows
            ' Rows(1).Insert shift:=xlShiftDown
            ' write cell value
             Set TxtRng = ws.Range("A" & CStr(i + 2))
             TxtRng.Value = extractedText
    
Next

Set extractor = Nothing


End Sub