It is our pleasure to announce the release of version 18.12 of
GroupDocs.Parser for .NET. The latest version allows you to extract the tables from PDF documents. Furthermore, we have added the support of extracting text and metadata from text and presentation templates. For more details, please have a look at the
release notes of version 18.12.
Features Introduced
Extracting Tables from PDF Documents
This feature is very useful when you want to extract only the tables form a PDF document. For extracting tables,
TableAreaParser class is used. The instance of
TableAreaParser class is available via property with the same name in
PdfTextExtractor class. You can create the table bounds manually or let the API detect the layout in automatic mode using
TableAreaDetector class. For working example of this feature, please refer to
this documentation article.
Extracting Text and Metadata from Text and Presentation Templates
GroupDocs.Parser now supports extracting text and metadata from the following text and presentation template formats:
- dotx (Template)
- dotm (Macro-enabled template)
- ott (OpenDocument Text Template)
- potx (Template)
- potm (Macro-enabled template)
- ppsm (Macro-enabled slideshow)
- pptm (Macro-enabled presentation)
The following code samples show how to extract text and metadata from templates.
// Extracting Text
void ExtractText(string fileName)
{
// Extract a text from the file
var text = Extractor.Default.ExtractText(fileName);
// Print an extracted text
Console.WriteLine(text);
}
// Extracting Metadata
void ExtractMetadata(string fileName)
{
// Extract metadata from the file
var metadata = Extractor.Default.ExtractMetadata(fileName);
// Print extracted metadata
foreach (var m in metadata)
{
// Print a metadata key
Console.Write(m.Key);
Console.Write(": ");
// Print a metadata value
Console.WriteLine(m.Value);
}
}
Enhancements
Detecting Type of Password-protected Office Open XML Documents
This feature allows detecting media type of the password-protected Office Open XML documents. To detect media type of encrypted Office Open XML document,
Detect(Stream, LoadOptions) method is used. You can also use
IPasswordProvider interface for batch document processing. For working examples of this feature, please refer to
this documentation article.
Available Channels and Resources
Here are a few channels and resources for you to download, learn, try and get technical support on GroupDocs.Parser:
Have Queries?
If you have got any queries or concerns about the API, please feel free to get in touch with us over the
forum. We’ll be glad to address your concerns.
