Reduce Memory Usage - VB.NET
PDF Extractor SDK sample in VB.NET demonstrating ‘Reduce Memory Usage’
Program.vb
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.IO
Class Program
	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())
        ' 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 extractor As 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 exception As PDFExtractorException
                Console.Write(exception.ToString())
            End Try
        End Using
        ' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.txt")
    End Sub
End Class