ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text in PDF With Hyphens

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text in PDF With Hyphens

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How to find text in PDF with hyphens in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to find text in PDF with hyphens in C#

The sample source code below will teach you how to find text in PDF with hyphens in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the Software Development Kit (SDK) that is designed to help developers with 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. It can be used to find text in PDF with hyphens using C#.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for C# plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to find text in PDF with hyphens. In order to implement the functionality, you should copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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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("words-with-hyphens.pdf");
			
			int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				// Search each page for "hyphen" string
				if (extractor.Find(i, "hyphen", false))
				{
					do
					{
						Console.WriteLine("Found on page " + i + " at location " + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString());
					}
					while (extractor.FindNext());
				}
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();
			
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
			Console.ReadLine();
		}
	}
}