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PDF files Parallel Processing | C#
Program.cs:
C#
using System; using System.IO; using System.Threading; using Bytescout.PDFExtractor; namespace Parallel_Processing { class Program { // Limit to 4 threads in queue. // Set this value to number of your processor cores for max performance. private static readonly Semaphore ThreadLimiter = new Semaphore(4, 4); static void Main(string[] args) { // Get all PDF files in a folder string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"..\..\..\..\", "*.pdf"); // Array of events to wait ManualResetEvent[] doneEvents = new ManualResetEvent[files.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < files.Length; i++) { // Wait for the queue ThreadLimiter.WaitOne(); // Start thread with filename and event in params doneEvents[i] = new ManualResetEvent(false); object[] threadData = new object[] { files[i], doneEvents[i] }; ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ConvertPdfToTxt, threadData); } // Wait until all threads finish WaitHandle.WaitAll(doneEvents); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("All is done."); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit..."); Console.ReadKey(); } private static void ConvertPdfToTxt(object state) { // Get filename and event from params string file = (string) ((object[]) state)[0]; ManualResetEvent doneEvent = (ManualResetEvent)((object[])state)[1]; string resultFileName = Path.GetFileName(file) + ".txt"; try { Console.WriteLine("Converting " + file); using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo")) { extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(file); extractor.SaveTextToFile(resultFileName); } Console.WriteLine("Finished " + resultFileName); } finally { // Signal the thread is finished doneEvent.Set(); // Release semaphore ThreadLimiter.Release(); } } } }