ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Phone Number (with Regex)

ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Phone Number (with Regex)

Program.cs

using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindPhoneNumberRegex
{
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_PhoneNo.pdf”);

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

int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

// Search through pages
for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) { // Search phoneNos in format 202-555-0130 string regexPattern = "[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)) { do { // Iterate through each element in the found text foreach (ISearchResultElement element in extractor.FoundText.Elements) { Console.WriteLine("Found Phone No: " + element.Text); } } while (extractor.FindNext()); } } } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message); } Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to continue..."); Console.ReadLine(); } } } [/csharp]

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