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in Visual Basic 6 (as ActiveX)

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The following sample demonstrates how to extract text from PDF in Visual Basic 6

Private Sub Form_Load()

' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\sample2.pdf")

' Get page count
pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount()

For i = 0 To pageCount - 1
    fileName = "page" & i & ".txt"

    ' Save extracted page text to file
    extractor.SavePageTextToFile i, fileName
Next

' Open first output file in default associated application
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "page0.txt", 1, false
Set shell = Nothing

Set extractor = Nothing


End Sub