Tutorial: Auto Recognize and Process a Form

 static TemplateExtractor extractor;  

      static void InitFormsObjects()  

      {  

         Console.WriteLine("Loading Templates...");  

         using TemplatesCollection templates = new TemplatesCollection.Builder()  

            .FromSourceFolder(@"C:\Users\TyBrucker\OneDrive - Apryse\Desktop\template_test\Templates")  

            .Build();  

  

         Console.WriteLine("Creating Extractor...");  

         extractor = new TemplateExtractor.Builder()  

            .SetTemplatesSource(templates)  

            .SetRuntimeFolder(PDFTronResources.TemplateRuntimes)  

            .SetLicense([PDFTronResources.LicenseFile, PDFTronResources.LicenseKey])  

            .Build();  

      }  

  

      static void RecognizeAndProcessForm()  

      {  

         Console.WriteLine("Begin recognizing forms...\n");  

         string formToRecognize = @"C:\Users\TyBrucker\OneDrive - Apryse\Desktop\template_test\Test Forms\72193839.pdf";  

  

         using var fileStream = new FileStream(formToRecognize, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);  

         var inputStream = new InputStream(fileStream);  

  

         Result<ExtractResult> recognitionResult = extractor.Extract(inputStream);  

         Console.WriteLine("Recognition Results:");  

         Console.WriteLine("=========================================================================");  

         ShowProcessedResults(recognitionResult);  

      }  

  

      static void ShowProcessedResults(Result<ExtractResult> result)  

      {  

         string resultsMessage = "";  

  

         foreach (ExtractedPage page in result.Value.Pages)  

         {  

            foreach (ExtractedText field in page.Fields)  

            {  

               resultsMessage += ($"{field.Id,-20}{field.Text,-20}{field.Confidence,-10:F2}\n");  

            }  

         }  

  

         Console.WriteLine("Field Processing Results:");  

         Console.WriteLine(resultsMessage);  

      }