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 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}: {1},{2},{3}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"); } } }Tutorials:
