Extract data from PDF coordinates in C# with PDF Extractor SDK

The C# sample below shows how to extract data from PDF file based on coordinates into TXT file using PDF Extractor SDK.

In these screenshots you can see input PDF table and output TXT file with data extracted from the given coordinates.

	Input PDF file
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	Output text file

C#

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Example
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample3.pdf");

			// Table dimensions (measured in points by hand using the original 100% scaled PDF document) 
			const int tableX = 207;
			const int tableY = 110;
			const int rowHeight = 24;
			const int col1width = 177;
			const int col2width = 76;
			const int col3width = 76;

			StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
			
			// Parse text from table cells
			for (int row = 0; row < 5; row++)
			{
				extractor.SetExtractionArea(Rectangle.FromLTRB(tableX, tableY + row * rowHeight, tableX + col1width, tableY + row * rowHeight + rowHeight));
                string cell1 = extractor.GetTextFromPage(0).Trim();

                extractor.SetExtractionArea(Rectangle.FromLTRB(tableX+ col1width, tableY + row * rowHeight, tableX + col1width + col2width, tableY + row * rowHeight + rowHeight));
                string cell2 = extractor.GetTextFromPage(0).Trim();

                extractor.SetExtractionArea(Rectangle.FromLTRB(tableX + col1width + col2width, tableY + row * rowHeight, tableX + col1width + col2width + col3width, tableY + row * rowHeight + rowHeight));
                string cell3 = extractor.GetTextFromPage(0).Trim();

				Console.WriteLine("Line #{0}: {1}, {2}, {3}", row, cell1, cell2, cell3);
                stringBuilder.AppendFormat("Line #{0}: {0},{1},{2}rnrn", row, cell1, cell2, cell3);
			}

			// Save text to file
			File.WriteAllText("output.txt", stringBuilder.ToString());

			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.txt' file.");
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue to open OUTPUT.TXT in Notepad...");
			Console.ReadKey();

			Process.Start("output.txt");
		}
	}
}