Important Update
With PDF Extractor SDK, you can extract text from specific parts of PDF documents defined by X Y coordinates. This sample code shows extracting text from PDF within a specific rectangular region with X Y coordinates.
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 instanceTextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();extractor.RegistrationName ="demo";extractor.RegistrationKey ="demo";// Load sample PDF documentextractor.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 cellsfor (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}: {1},{2},{3}rnrn", row, cell1, cell2, cell3);}// Save text to fileFile.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");}}}Tutorials:
