ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text

ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text

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(@”.\sample1.pdf”);

// Set the matching mode.
// WordMatchingMode.None – treats the search string as substring
// WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch – treats the search string as separate word
// WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch – will find the word in various forms (like Adobe Reader).
extractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch;

int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) { // Search each page for "ipsum" string if (extractor.Find(i, "ipsum", false)) { do { Console.WriteLine(""); Console.WriteLine("Found on page " + i + " at location " + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString()); Console.WriteLine(""); // Iterate through each element in the found text foreach (SearchResultElement element in extractor.FoundText.Elements) { Console.WriteLine ("Element #" + element.Index + " at left=" + element.Left + "; top=" + element.Top + "; width=" + element.Width + "; height=" + element.Height); Console.WriteLine ("Text: " + element.Text); Console.WriteLine ("Font is bold: " + element.FontIsBold); Console.WriteLine ("Font is italic:" + element.FontIsItalic); Console.WriteLine ( "Font name: " + element.FontName); Console.WriteLine ( "Font size:" + element.FontSize); Console.WriteLine ( "Font color:" + element.FontColor); } } while (extractor.FindNext()); } } // Cleanup extractor.Dispose(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..."); Console.ReadLine(); } } } [/csharp]

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