Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

' This example demonstrates the use of profiles. Profiles are set of properties 
' allowing to apply them to Extractor in any combination quickly. You can use 
' predefined profiles or create you own in JSON format like in this example.

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"
        extractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata_best"

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

        ' Apply predefined profiles
        extractor.Profiles = "ocr, newspaper-layout"
        ' Extract text to file
        extractor.SaveTextToFile("result1.txt")


        extractor.Reset()


        ' Load another document
        extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.pdf")

        ' Load and apply custom profiles
        extractor.LoadProfiles("profiles.json")
        extractor.Profiles = "keep-formatting, ocr-forced-200dpi"
        ' Extract text to file
        extractor.SaveTextToFile("result2.txt")


        ' Cleanup
        extractor.Dispose()


        ' See result files in "bin\Debug" folder

    End Sub
End Class

{
    "profiles": [
        {
            "keep-formatting": {
                "PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction": "true"
            }
        },
        {
            "ocr-forced-200dpi": {
                "OCRMode": "TextFromImagesAndVectorsAndFonts",
				"OCRResolution": "200"
            }
        }
    ]
}