Class PdfExtractor

Class PdfExtractor

Namespace: Aspose.Pdf.Plugins
Assembly: Aspose.PDF.dll

Represents base functionality to extract text, images, and other types of content that may occur on the pages of PDF documents.

public abstract class PdfExtractor : IPlugin, IDisposable

Inheritance

object ← PdfExtractor

Derived

ImageExtractor, TextExtractor

Implements

IPlugin, IDisposable

Inherited Members

object.GetType(), object.MemberwiseClone(), object.ToString(), object.Equals(object?), object.Equals(object?, object?), object.ReferenceEquals(object?, object?), object.GetHashCode()

Examples

The example demonstrates how to extract text content of PDF document.

// create TextExtractor object to extract PDF contents
using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor())
{
    // create TextExtractorOptions object to set instructions
    textExtractorOptions = new TextExtractorOptions();

    // add input file path to data sources
    textExtractorOptions.AddInput(new FileDataSource(inputPath));

    // perform extraction process
    ResultContainer resultContainer = extractor.Process(textExtractorOptions);

    // get the extracted text from the ResultContainer object
    string textExtracted = resultContainer.ResultCollection[0].ToString();
}

Remarks

The Aspose.Pdf.Plugins.TextExtractor object is used to extract text, or Aspose.Pdf.Plugins.ImageExtractor to extract images.

Constructors

PdfExtractor() 

protected PdfExtractor()

Methods

Dispose()

Implementation of IDisposable. Actually, it is not necessary for PdfExtractor.

public void Dispose()

Process(IPluginOptions)

Starts PdfExtractor processing with the specified parameters.

public ResultContainer Process(IPluginOptions pdfExtractorOptions)

Parameters

pdfExtractorOptions IPluginOptions

An options object containing instructions for the PdfExtractor.

Returns

ResultContainer

A ResultContainer object containing the result of the extraction.

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