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Learn to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

On this page you will learn from code samples for programming in VB.NET.Writing of the code to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET can be executed by programmers of any level using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. 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. It can find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite works best when you need to quickly find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. This VB.NET 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! If you want to use these VB.NET sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Program

    Sub Main()

        Try
            ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
            Using extractor As TextExtractor = New TextExtractor()
                extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
                extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

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

                ' Enable the regular expression 
                extractor.RegexSearch = True

                Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount()

                ' Search through pages
                For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1
                    ' Search Email addresses
                    Dim regexPattern As String = "\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) Then

                        Do
                            ' Iterate through each element in the found text
                            For Each element As ISearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements
                                Console.WriteLine("Found Email Addresses: " & element.Text)
                            Next
                        Loop While extractor.FindNext()

                    End If
                Next
            End Using

        Catch ex As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("Error: " & ex.Message)
        End Try

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

    End Sub

End Module