Download and Process file - VB.NET
PDF Extractor SDK sample in VB.NET demonstrating ‘Download and Process file’
Program.vb
Imports System.IO
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Class Program
Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())
' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
Dim extractor As New TextExtractor()
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"
' Input file Url
Dim inputUrl As String = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-text/sample.pdf"
' Get Input Stream
Dim inpStream As Stream = GetStreamFromUrl(inputUrl)
' Load sample PDF document from stream
extractor.LoadDocumentFromStream(inpStream)
' Save extracted text to file
extractor.SaveTextToFile(".\result.txt")
' Cleanup
extractor.Dispose()
' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\result.txt")
End Sub
''' <summary>
''' Get stream from Url
''' </summary>
Private Shared Function GetStreamFromUrl(ByVal url As String) As Stream
Dim oData As Byte() = Nothing
Using wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
oData = wc.DownloadData(url)
End Using
Return New MemoryStream(oData)
End Function
End Class