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How to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

This sample source code below will display you how to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET. ByteScout Premium Suite can extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VB.NET. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Premium Suite for VB.NET plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to extract filled pdf form data with pdf extractor sdk. This VB.NET 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! Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor Imports System.Xml Module Module1 Sub Main() ' Create XMLExtractor instance Dim extractor As XMLExtractor = New XMLExtractor() extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\filled_form.pdf") ' Get PDF document text as XML Dim xmlText As String = extractor.GetXML() ' Load XML Dim xmlDocument As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument() XmlDocument.LoadXml(XmlText) ' Select all "control" nodes Dim formControls As XmlNodeList = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//control") If (formControls IsNot Nothing) Then For Each formControl As XmlNode In formControls Dim typeAttribute = formControl.Attributes("type") If (typeAttribute.Value = "editbox") Then ' Show filled textboxes If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(formControl.InnerText)) Then Console.WriteLine("EDITBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.InnerText) End If ElseIf (typeAttribute.Value = "checkbox") Then ' Show checked checkboxes If (formControl.Attributes("state").Value = "1") Then Console.WriteLine("CHECKBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.Attributes("state").Value) End If End If Next formControl End If ' Cleanup extractor.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key...") Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module

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