ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Data Masking in PDF

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data masking in PDF in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

data masking in PDF in C#

We’ve created and updating regularly our sample code library so you may quickly learn data masking in PDF and the step-by-step process in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK helps with data masking in PDF in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK that helps developers to extract data from unstructured documents, pdf, images, scanned and electronic forms. Includes AI functions like automatic table detection, automatic table extraction and restructuring, text recognition and text restoration from pdf and scanned documents. Includes PDF to CSV, PDF to XML, PDF to JSON, PDF to searchable PDF functions as well as methods for low level data extraction.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the code below and use it in your application. Follow the instruction from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for C# into your editor. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample C# codes to add data masking in PDF functions using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace RepairText
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                // Generate CSVExtractor instance
                using (CSVExtractor extractor = new CSVExtractor("demo", "demo"))
                {
                    // Load PDF document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample.pdf");

                    // Get all data
                    string allData = extractor.GetCSV();

                    // Regular expressions and replacements
                    string ssnRegex = @"\d{3}[-]?\d{2}[-]?\d{4}";
                    string ssnReplace = "***-**-****";

                    string phoneRegex = @"\d{3}[-]?\d{3}[-]?\d{4}";
                    string phoneReplace = "***-***-****";

                    // Find and mask SSN and phone numbers
                    allData = Regex.Replace(allData, ssnRegex , ssnReplace);
                    allData = Regex.Replace(allData, phoneRegex, phoneReplace);

                    // Write as CSV
                    File.WriteAllText("output.csv", allData);

                    // Open file
                    ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.csv");
                    processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
                    Process.Start(processStartInfo);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

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