ByteScout Premium Suite – VB.NET – Make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk

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How to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to code in VB.NET to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

The documentation is designed for a specific purpose to help you to apply the features on your side. 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 be applied to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk using VB.NET.

This prolific sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to make searchable pdf discarding existing content 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! Applying VB.NET application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

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

        ' Load sample PDF document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_withText.pdf")

        ' Set the location of OCR 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

        ' Discard Existing Text in document
        searchablePdfMaker.DiscardExistingDocumentText = True

        ' Save extracted text to file
        searchablePdfMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf")

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.pdf")

    End Sub

End Module