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How to find phone number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to find phone number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. Want to find phone number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET app? ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is designed for it. 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite works best when you need to quickly find phone number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Applying VB.NET 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.

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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_PhoneNo.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 phoneNos in format 202-555-0130
                    Dim regexPattern As String = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}"
                    ' 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 Phone No: " & 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