ByteScout Premium Suite – VBScript – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout Premium Suite – VBScript – 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 VBScript using ByteScout Premium Suite

This code in VBScript shows how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk with this how to tutorial

The coding instructions are formulated to help you to try-out the features without the requirement to write your own code. 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 extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk using VBScript.

These VBScript code samples for VBScript guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Premium Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VBScript below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout Premium Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

You can download free trial version of ByteScout Premium Suite from our website with this and other source code samples for VBScript.

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ExtractTextByColumns.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

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

' Set the column layout mode
extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

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

' Open output file in default associated application
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.txt", 1, false
Set shell = Nothing

Set extractor = Nothing