ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the bundle that includes three SDK tools for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK. It can find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! Applying C# application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

Trial version of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is available for free. Source code samples are included to help you with your C# app.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Drawing;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");
			
			int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

			// Search each page for some keyword 
			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				if (extractor.Find(i, "References", false))
				{
					// If page contains the keyword, extract a text from it.
					// For demonstration we'll extract the text from top part of the page only
					extractor.SetExtractionArea(0, 0, 600, 200);
					string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
					Console.WriteLine(text);
				}
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();
			
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
			Console.ReadLine();
		}
	}
}