Most use cases of ImageGear PDF are illustrated as either samples or demos and are placed in the Samples directory of the product.

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Samples

ImageGear PDF has the following samples (organized by category):

ART Annotations
Licensing
OCR
PDF and PostScript

ART Annotations

Samples Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\ART\...

Name	GUI	This Sample Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
AddWatermarkToPDFPage	WinForms	Watermarking a PDF document by adding: A translucent PDF FreeText annotation that says "DRAFT" across the top of the page. A PNG image placed in the center of the page. Images that support alpha channel transparency may be used.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019

Name

GUI

This Sample Demonstrates...

Languages

IDEs

AddWatermarkToPDFPage

WinForms

Watermarking a PDF document by adding:

A translucent PDF FreeText annotation that says "DRAFT" across the top of the page.
A PNG image placed in the center of the page.

Images that support alpha channel transparency may be used.

C#, VB.NET

VS2015
VS2017
VS2019

Licensing

Sample Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\Licensing\...

Name	GUI	This Sample Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
OEMLicensing	Console	How to apply an OEM license using the ImageGear .NET API.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019

OCR

Samples Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\OCR\...

For convenience, we added identical sample projects created with different versions of Visual Studio.

Name	GUI	This Sample Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
OCRtoTextOrPDF	WinForms	How to perform OCR on an image file and output the resulting text to either a PDF or a TXT file.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
OCRUsingZones	WinForms	How to perform OCR using zones and output the recognized text to a textbox.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
OCRLanguageSelection	WinForms	How to enable / disable languages before performing OCR and sending the resulting data to a text box.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
OCRImagePDF	WinForms	How to recognize Image PDF and save as PDF file with image over text.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019

PDF and PostScript

Samples Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\PDF\...

For convenience, we added identical sample projects created with different versions of Visual Studio.

Name	GUI	This Sample Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
AddAndVerifyPDFSignatures	Console	How to add and verify digital signatures on a PDF document.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
ConvertPDFtoSVG	WinForms	How to convert a PDF document to a SVG using Accusoft's API.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
CreatePDFForm	Console	How to create and populate form fields on a new PDF.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
ExtractFormFieldData	Console	How to extract form field data from PDF files.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
ExtractTextFromPDF	WinForms	How to extract the text content from a PDF document and save it as a text file.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
PDFMerge	WinForms	How to merge two PDF documents into a one PDF document.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
PDFSecurity	WinForms	How to manage PDF security three ways: Open a password-protected PDF file Write an encrypted password-protected PDF file Remove the encryption and password from a PDF file	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
PDFToText	Console	How to extract text from any PDF document.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
SaveCompressedPDF	Console	How to save a compressed PDF document.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
SavePDFtoImageGUI	WinForms	How to read a PDF document page by page, index, rasterize a page, and store the raster page as JPEG file.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
SplitPDFUsingMultipleThreads	Console	How to split PDFs using multiple threads.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
VerifyAndConvertToPDFA	WinForms	How to convert a PDF document into a PDFA standard and how to verify compliance with ISO-standard PDFA-1a.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019
SavePDFtoMultiPageTIF.WPF	WPF	Converting a PDF into a multi-page TIF using WPF controls.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019

Demos

ImageGear PDF has the following :

ART Annotations
PDF

ART Annotations

Demo Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\ART\...

Name	GUI	This Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
AnnotateImageAndPDF_WPF	WPF	How to annotate images and PDF with ART marks.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019

PDF

Demo Location: $INSTALLDIR\Samples\Source Code\[CSharp|VBNET]\[VS2015|VS2017|VS2019]\PDF\...

For convenience, we added identical demo projects created with different versions of Visual Studio.

Name	GUI	This Demonstrates...	Languages	IDEs
EditFormFieldAppearances	WinForms	How to modify the visual appearance of fields and their annotations, such as, border color, style, and text color.	C#, VB.NET	VS2015 VS2017 VS2019