PDF To CSV (Merge multiline text to table cell) - C#
PDF Extractor SDK sample in C# demonstrating ‘PDF To CSV (Merge multiline text to table cell)’
Program.cs
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor instance
CSVExtractor extractor = new CSVExtractor();
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";
// Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample3_multiline.pdf");
// you can change CSV separator symbol (if needed) from "," symbol to another if needed for non-US locales
//extractor.CSVSeparatorSymbol = ",";
// For multiline cell join extracted cell text into single line
extractor.LineGroupingMode = LineGroupingMode.GroupByRows;
extractor.Unwrap = true;
// Save extracted CSV data
extractor.SaveCSVToFile("output.csv");
// Cleanup
extractor.Dispose();
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.csv' file.");
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open CSV in default CSV viewer (or Excel)...");
Console.ReadKey();
// Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.csv");
processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
Process.Start(processStartInfo);
}
}
}