ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Find Email Addresses in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Find Email Addresses in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

This code in C# shows how to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the set that includes 3 SDK products for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK and you can use it to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite works best when you need to quickly find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindEmailAddressesRegexp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
                using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor())
                {
                    extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
                    extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

                    // Load sample PDF document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("samplePDF_EmailAddress.pdf");

                    extractor.RegexSearch = true; // Enable the regular expressions

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search email Addresses
                        string regexPattern = @"\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b";
                        // See the complete regular expressions reference at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc(v=vs.110).aspx

                        // Search each page for the pattern
                        if (extractor.Find(i, regexPattern, false))
                        {
                            do
                            {
                                // Iterate through each element in the found text
                                foreach (ISearchResultElement element in extractor.FoundText.Elements)
                                {
                                    Console.WriteLine("Found Email Addresses: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to continue...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}