ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text in PDF with Smart Match

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find Text in PDF with Smart Match

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

How to find text in PDF with smart match in C#

The sample source codes on this page shows how to find text in PDF with smart match in C#. Want to find text in PDF with smart match in your C# app? ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is designed for it. 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.

C# code samples for C# developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In your C# project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace FindTextSmartMatch
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load the document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf");

            // Smart match the search string like Adobe Reader
            extractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch;

            string searchString = "land";

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();
            
            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Search for text string
                if (extractor.Find(i, searchString, false))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Output search results
                        Console.WriteLine("Found on page " + i + " at location " + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString());

                        // Now we are getting the found text
                        string extractedString = extractor.FoundText.Text;
                        Console.WriteLine("Found text: " + extractedString);
                    }
                    while (extractor.FindNext()); // Search next occurrence of the search string
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();


            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}