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The .NET bridge API is a wrapper for the .NET programming language that uses an actual i-net PDFC server to carry out the file comparison. The bridge API starts a Java process running the product in the background. It will then operate as a bridge to this process.

System Requirements

The bridge API is able to run on any OS with .NET runtime and Java runtime installed. There is no limit to a 32 bit or 64 bit architecture. The .NET and the Java process don't need to use the same architecture.

Required Folder Structure for Visual Studio and Powershell

<project folder>\                       # the root of your Visual Studio project
  <any folder>\                         # the location of this folder is not important, it must be a sub folder of the project or the root
    inetsoftware.Pdfc.dll               # the reference must be added to the Visual Studio project
  plugins\
    pdfc.zip                            # basic PDFC API
    processbridge.zip                   # base process bridge API
    processbridge.pdfc.zip              # pdfc specific bridge API
    parser.pdf.zip                      # parsing of pdf files
    reporting.zip                       # generation of pdf output
    htmlengine.zip                      # required by reporting plugin
    *.zip                               # any further feature you want to use
  java\
    inetcore.jar                        # basic platform API
    *.jar                               # more optional features
  lang\                                 # language files for the OCR filter
    tessdata\
       eng.traineddata                  # default language for ORC, required if OCR filter is used                
  jre\                                  # optional Java runtime, if not available the Java VM of the system is used
    bin\                              
      java.exe                          # it looks for this file to find the optional Java runtime
      *.*                               # all Java VM files
    lib\*.*
    *.*

Visual Studio

If you want to test this API with Visual Studio or Rider then:

• Create a new project, for example a console application
• Add the files described in the folder structure below to the project
• Add a reference to the library inetsoftware.Pdfc.dll
• Add a sample *.cs file to the project
• Build the project and run it. The samples\resources\ folder contains sample PDF files

Powershell

If you're running any of the provided powershell script you might need to prepare your environment. Powershell scripts are disabled by default. Here is what you need to do:

# activate powershell scripting temporarily
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

# go into previously created folder (please modify accordingly)
cd <project folder>\<any folder>

# execute script
& '<sdk>\Documentation and Samples\dotnet - Samples\PowerShell\ComparePdfFiles.ps1'