ByteScout Premium Suite – VB.NET – Convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk

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How to convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET. What is ByteScout Premium Suite? It is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can help you to convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do convert pdf to csv (merge multiline text to table cell) with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout Premium Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Diagnostics

Namespace ConsoleApplication1

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor instance
            Dim extractor As New CSVExtractor()
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

            ' Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample3_multiline.pdf")

            ' You can change CSV separator symbol (if needed) from "," symbol to another if needed for non-US locales
            'extractor.CSVSeparatorSymbol = "," 

            ' For multiline cell join extracted cell text into single line
            extractor.LineGroupingMode = LineGroupingMode.GroupByRows
            extractor.Unwrap = True

            ' Save extracted CSV data to file
            extractor.SaveCSVToFile("output.csv")

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.csv' file.")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open CSV in default CSV viewer (or Excel)...")
            Console.ReadKey()

            ' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            Process.Start("output.csv")

        End Sub
        
    End Class
End Namespace