ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF

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How to find keyword and extract text in PDF in C# and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to find keyword and extract text in PDF in C#

Learn how to find keyword and extract text in PDF in C# with this source code sample. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK is designed to help developers with pdf tables and pdf data extraction from unstructured documents like pdf, tiff, scans, images, scanned and electronic forms. The library is powered by OCR, computer vision and AI to provide unique functionality like table detection, automatic table structure extraction, data restoration, data restructuring and reconstruction. Supports PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG images as input and can output CSV, XML, JSON formatted data. Includes full set of utilities like pdf splitter, pdf merger, searchable pdf maker and other utilities. It can find keyword and extract text in PDF in C#.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do find keyword and extract text in PDF in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In your C# project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Test C# sample code examples whether they respond your needs and requirements for the project.

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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();
		}
	}
}