Reduce Memory Usage for PDF to Text - C#
PDF Extractor SDK sample in C# demonstrating ‘Reduce Memory Usage for PDF to Text’
Program.cs
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
namespace ReduceMemoryUsage
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// When processing huge PDF documents you may run into OutOfMemoryException.
// This example demonstrates a way to spare the memory by disabling page data caching.
// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo"))
{
try
{
// Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf");
// Disable page data caching, so processed pages wiil be disposed automatically
extractor.PageDataCaching = PageDataCaching.None;
// Save extracted text to file
extractor.SaveTextToFile("output.txt");
}
catch (PDFExtractorException exception)
{
Console.Write(exception.ToString());
}
}
// Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.txt");
processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
Process.Start(processStartInfo);
}
}
}