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PDF files are the most commonly used file formats in electronic documents. It is widely known that PDF is the single most popular format for documents outside of the office. You will most likely encounter PDF files at work virtually every other day. One of the most common problems associated with PDF documents is their conversion to other formats for modification and different usage. You might perhaps want to open and modify a chart in [...]

You might have come across the name flat-file and wondered what it is and why it is important. Well, a flat file is a file that contains records that do not have a structured interrelationship. It is simply a text file that does not contain any structured characters of processing from application files such as Excel and PDF. A flat file is made up of a single data table. A flat file allows a user [...]

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a document format independent of the system’s hardware and software and can be opened on any system using designated software. However, unlike Microsoft Word and other word processing software, it is extremely cumbersome to extract desired information such as figures and tables from PDF documents. Special software has been developed which allows users to extract information from PDF documents. Tabula and ByteScout PDF Multitool are two of such software. In [...]

PDF/A (Archival) PDF/A (Archival Portable Document Format) or commonly referred to as the archival PDF is a type of standard PDF, which is used to store information for a longer period of time as compared to the traditional PDF. PDF/A is an ISO-standardized variation of PDF and is widely used to preserve electronic documents and files, digitally for longer periods of time. History and Purpose The traditional PDF document format relies on lots of external [...]

In the field of data mining, the trickiest part is to automate the software to read tables. In normal extraction, it's just paragraph or image, but when tables are involved one needs to be sure that they can relate data from rows to their respective columns. And complexity raises when the table is spanned across multiple pages. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK or PDF.co Web API is one of the best solutions available in the market [...]

One of the known problems in data extensive business is to extract data from PDF when PDF is the output of the scanned document. In this article, we'll see how to extract text from scanned pdf using one of ByteScout PDF SDK. ByteScout is an established player known to provide reliable PDF solutions to developers. We'll see through how to convert scanned pdf to text using ByteScout PDF Extractor library. For this program purpose, I [...]

In Part 1 of this multi-tutorial about my fabulous experience as a developer using the Bytescout PDF text Extractor SDK tools I covered several easy but sophisticated tools and showed how to extract images from pdf online as well as how to extract pages from PDFs or extract one page from a PDF. START YOUR FREE TRIAL Now, in Part 2 I want to delve into the more basic nuts and bolts functions and show [...]

Recently I had a challenging project to develop an interface for a mechanical engineer who needed to chart and visualize data from PDF spec sheets on an Excel spreadsheet. Fortunately, I found these great SDK tools from Bytescout which made the technical challenges and coding a breeze and made the whole project fun and easy! In this multi-tutorial, we will explore the rich variety of tools available in Bytescout’s awesome PDF Extractor SDK, and learn [...]

ByteScout updated ByteScout PDF To HTML SDK 6.30.0.2421 ByteScout PDF Multitool 6.30.0.2421 ByteScout PDF Viewer SDK 6.30.0.2421 ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK 6.30.0.2421 ByteScout PDF SDK 1.1.0.68 ByteScout PDF Renderer SDK 6.30.0.2421 on March 23, 2016. Whats's new: PDF To HTML SDK 6.30.0.2421: improved support of ICC color profiles imporved handling of embedded fonts fixed extracted text duplication when using OCRCacheMode.WholePage option PDF Multitool 6.30.0.2421: improved support of ICC color profiles improved handling of embedded fonts improved Attachment [...]

Adobe PDF is perhaps the best method of sharing documents. All the documents are read-only and no matter which platform you use for formatting that. All the devices, both computer, and mobile can open any Adobe files. The following are some of the best PDF tools which allow you to use PDF files effectively. Adobe Reader: Adobe reader is the leading tool in the PDF industry without any doubt. As it was the first to come [...]