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Blood Test Results to JSON - VB.NET

Document Parser SDK sample in VB.NET demonstrating ‘Blood Test Results to JSON’

Module1.vb
Imports System.Collections.Specialized
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Threading
Imports ByteScout.DocumentParser
Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        ' Sample document containing blood test report
        ' Report consists of sample patient information such as patinet name, DOB, patientID
        ' Report information such as report type, collection date And time
        ' Test components such as complete blood count, Hemoglobin, White Blood Cell (WBC), Red Blood Cell (RBC), etc.
        Dim sampleDocument As String = ".\SampleBloodReport.pdf"

        ' Sample template which primarily extracts patient name, report date And test result table.
        Dim sampleTemplate As String = ".\SampleBloodReport.yml"

        ' Perform parsing with SDK
        ParseWithSDK(sampleDocument, sampleTemplate)

        ' Perform parsing with PDF.co api
        ' ParseWithPDFCoApi(sampleDocument, sampleTemplate)

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...")
        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

    ''' <summary>
    ''' Parse with Document Parser SDK
    ''' </summary>
    Sub ParseWithSDK(ByVal sampleDocument As String, ByVal sampleTemplate As String)

        ' Create DocumentParser instance
        Using documentParser As New DocumentParser("demo", "demo")

            ' Add sample template
            documentParser.AddTemplate(sampleTemplate)

            ' Parse document data in JSON format
            Dim jsonString As String = documentParser.ParseDocument(sampleDocument, OutputFormat.JSON)

            Dim resultFile = "result.json"

            ' Write output file
            File.WriteAllText(resultFile, jsonString)

            Console.WriteLine($"Generated JSON file saved as {resultFile} file")

        End Using

    End Sub


    ''' <summary>
    ''' Parse with PDF.co API
    ''' </summary>
    Sub ParseWithPDFCoApi(ByVal sampleDocument As String, ByVal sampleTemplate As String)

        ' The authentication key (API Key).
        ' Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api
        Const API_KEY As String = "***********************************"

        ' PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents.
        Const Password As String = ""

        ' Destination TXT file name
        Const DestinationFile As String = ".\result.json"

        ' (!) Make asynchronous job
        Const Async As Boolean = True

        ' Template text. Use Document Parser SDK (https//bytescout.com/products/developer/documentparsersdk/index.html)
        ' to create templates.
        ' Read template from file
        Dim templateText As String = File.ReadAllText(sampleTemplate)

        ' Create standard .NET web client instance
        Dim webClient As WebClient = New WebClient()

        ' Set API Key
        webClient.Headers.Add("x-api-key", API_KEY)

        ' 1. RETRIEVE THE PRESIGNED URL TO UPLOAD THE FILE.
        ' * If you already have a direct file URL, skip to the step 3.

        ' Prepare URL for `Get Presigned URL` API call
        Dim query As String = Uri.EscapeUriString(String.Format(
            "https://api.pdf.co/v1/file/upload/get-presigned-url?contenttype=application/octet-stream&name={0}",
            Path.GetFileName(sampleDocument)))

        Try
            ' Execute request
            Dim response As String = webClient.DownloadString(query)

            ' Parse JSON response
            Dim json As JObject = JObject.Parse(response)

            If json("error").ToObject(Of Boolean) = False Then
                ' Get URL to use for the file upload
                Dim uploadUrl As String = json("presignedUrl").ToString()
                ' Get URL of uploaded file to use with later API calls
                Dim uploadedFileUrl As String = json("url").ToString()

                ' 2. UPLOAD THE FILE TO CLOUD.
                webClient.Headers.Add("content-type", "application/octet-stream")
                webClient.UploadFile(uploadUrl, "PUT", sampleDocument) ' You can use UploadData() instead if your file is byte array or Stream

                ' 3. PARSE UPLOADED PDF DOCUMENT

                ' URL for `Document Parser` API call
                query = Uri.EscapeUriString(
                    String.Format("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/documentparser?url={0}&async={1}", uploadedFileUrl, Async)
                    )

                Dim requestBody As New NameValueCollection()
                requestBody.Add("template", templateText)

                ' Execute request
                Dim responseBytes As Byte() = webClient.UploadValues(query, "POST", requestBody)
                response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responseBytes)

                ' Parse JSON response
                json = JObject.Parse(response)

                If json("error").ToObject(Of Boolean) = False Then

                    ' Asynchronous job ID
                    Dim jobId As String = json("jobId").ToString()
                    ' URL of generated PDF file that will available after the job completion
                    Dim resultFileUrl As String = json("url").ToString()

                    ' Check the job status in a loop. 
                    ' If you don't want to pause the main thread you can rework the code 
                    ' to use a separate thread for the status checking and completion.
                    Do
                        Dim status As String = CheckJobStatus(webClient, jobId) ' Possible statuses: "working", "failed", "aborted", "success".

                        ' Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes)
                        Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + ": " + status)

                        If status = "success" Then

                            ' Download PDF file
                            webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile)

                            Console.WriteLine("Generated JSON file saved as ""{0}"" file.", DestinationFile)
                            Exit Do

                        ElseIf status = "working" Then

                            ' Pause for a few seconds
                            Thread.Sleep(3000)

                        Else

                            Console.WriteLine(status)
                            Exit Do

                        End If

                    Loop

                Else
                    Console.WriteLine(json("message").ToString())
                End If

            End If

        Catch ex As WebException
            Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString())
        End Try

        webClient.Dispose()

    End Sub

    ''' <summary>
    ''' Check PDF.co job status
    ''' </summary>
    Function CheckJobStatus(ByVal webClient As WebClient, ByVal jobId As String) As String

        Dim url As String = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/job/check?jobid=" + jobId

        Dim response As String = webClient.DownloadString(url)
        Dim json As JObject = JObject.Parse(response)

        Return Convert.ToString(json("status"))

    End Function


End Module

SampleBloodReport.yml
templateName: BloodTestTemplate
templateVersion: 4
templatePriority: 0
detectionRules:
  keywords: []
objects:
- name: PatientName
  objectType: field
  fieldProperties:
    fieldType: rectangle
    rectangle:
    - 177.75
    - 123.75
    - 62.25
    - 12.75
    pageIndex: 0
- name: ReportName
  objectType: field
  fieldProperties:
    fieldType: rectangle
    expression: '{{SmartDate}}'
    dataType: date
    rectangle:
    - 335.25
    - 94.5
    - 65.25
    - 12
    pageIndex: 0
- name: TestResults
  objectType: table
  tableProperties:
    start:
      y: 261.75
      pageIndex: 0
    end:
      y: 712.5
      pageIndex: 0
    left: 41.25
    right: 573.75
    rowMergingRule: byBorders


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