ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Find US Address in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. 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 US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindUsAddressRegex
{
    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_Address.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search Address
                        string regexPattern = @"((\w+[ ,])+ ){2}([a-zA-Z]){2}[ , ] (\d+)";
                        // 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 Address: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

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