It invokes the user-defined PrintTable method to save the extracted tables along with the page index on which each table was found in a list of type List. The code below fetches the document's logical structure and root element to create a list of tables. We need to extract the root element from the logical structure to access the document's children and specifically find tables in the document using the Table structural element. This method returns the hidden tag structure of the complete document. Instance to load source tagged PDF documentįetch the logical structure of the document using GetLogicalStructure method of GcPdfDocument class. Using (var s = File.OpenRead(Path.Combine('Resources', 'PDFs', 'InvoiceDemo.pdf'))) private TextFormat _tf, _tfHdr, _tfPgHdr įont = Font.FromFile(Path.Combine('Resources', 'Fonts', 'segoeui.ttf')),įont = Font.FromFile(Path.Combine('Resources', 'Fonts', 'segoeuib.ttf')), The code below initializes both these instances and declares a few text formats that will be used to create the resulting document.

Also, create another instance of GcPdfDocument class to add tables extracted from the source document and later save this new document. Initialize Source Document and Destination DocumentĬreate an instance of GcPdfDocument class to load the source-tagged PDF document, an Invoice. As a blog use case, we will be extracting the table from the following Invoice document: The steps below describe how to programmatically extract data from a tagged PDF document, specifically extracting tables from the tagged PDF document using the Table structural element and later adding these extracted tables to create a new PDF document. Use C# to Extract Data from a Tagged PDF Document Alternatively, many PDF Files include tags added from Adobe or an authoring application, such as Adobe FrameMaker®, Adobe InDesign, or Microsoft Word. You can refer to the following blog, which provides a detailed explanation of creating tagged PDF documents using GcPdf API.

As described above, GcPdf allows you to create tagged PDF Files.

Let's start by understanding how a tagged PDF document is created. Download Now! How to Create a Tagged PDF Document

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