Now
you can add lighting fast text extraction capabilities to your own application
using the TEXTfromPDF ActiveX API. This is the same parsing
engine that is used by our TEXTfromPDF application’s “Simple Formatting”
option. Download
the trial version of the application and convert some of your PDF documents
to see how fast this engine is. There is no faster pdf to text converter
on the planet and we’ve
got the test results to prove it.
The
component has been written from the ground up using Assembly Language for
the fastest possible execution. It does not require any Adobe product
like some other APIs. As a matter of fact, it does not require any
third party software. All of the functionality is contained in one
compact DLL.
The
DEMO API can also be used to extract the text from MS Office documents
(Word, Excel, Rich Text Format, & Powerpoint). You may freely
test this functionality as well during your trial of the API. Licenses
for each document type are sold separately. Contact
us for MS Office document converter pricing. The pricing shown
on this page is for PDF extraction only
The
API is a software development kit (SDK) that can be used via COM API to
support VB, .NET, Delphi, C/C++, etc. applications. Any
programming language that supports ActiveX can use this DLL.
Only
a few simple lines of code are required to extract the text content from
PDF files.
Visual
Basic Sample Code:
Dim
pStructure As SBSTxtLib.OutPutStruc
Dim objDocTxt
As
SBSTxtLib.DocCom
Set objDocTxt
= New SBSTxtLib.DocCom
Call objDocTxt.GetText("test.pdf",
pStructure)
MsgBox
pStructure.pText
Download
the Demo SDK package and try it in your own development environment for
FREE. We’ll allow you to convert up to 100 documents. That
should be enough to show you how powerful our library is. The demo
package will install the sbstxtlib.dll and the help documentation.
Related Products:
Command
Line and Batch Tool:
Another
great way to add text extraction capabilities to your own application is
via the TEXTfromPDF application's command line interface.
When
invoked from the command line, the application is hidden from view
Download the trial
version of the application and review the help file topic discussion
to learn more. If you are going to be programmatically accessing
the command line interface of TEXTfromPDF, you will need to purchase
a Developer License (Command Line).
Usage
Restrictions:
Note
that you cannot use the TEXTfromPDF ActiveX SDK to create a commercial
pdf to text conversion application or to create an application that competes
with any other Salty Brine Software application without the explicit written
permission of Salty Brine Software.
