ByteScout Premium Suite – VB.NET – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout Premium Suite – VB.NET – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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How to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in VB.NET to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

The code displayed below will guide you to install an VB.NET app to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk. 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 extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

These VB.NET code samples for VB.NET guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Premium Suite. Simply copy and paste in your VB.NET project or application you and then run your app! This basic programming language sample code for VB.NET will do the whole work for you to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program
	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

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

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

		' Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
		extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

		' Save extracted text to file
		extractor.SaveTextToFile(".\result.txt")

		' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()

		' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
		System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\result.txt")
		
	End Sub
End Class