ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find SSN in PDF with Regex

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find SSN in PDF with Regex

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How to find SSN in PDF with regex in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Write code in C# to find SSN in PDF with regex with this step-by-step tutorial

This sample source code below will demonstrate you how to find SSN in PDF with regex 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. It can be used to find SSN in PDF with regex using C#.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do find SSN in PDF with regex in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instruction. Test C# sample code examples whether they respond your needs and requirements for the project.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindSSNNumberRegexp
{
    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_SSNNo.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search SSN in format 202-55-0130
                        string regexPattern = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[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 SSN 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();
        }
    }
}