ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Data Masking in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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data masking in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

data masking in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

This page helps you to learn from code samples for programming in C#. Data masking in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# can be applied with ByteScout PDF Suite. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

C# code snippet like this for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly implement data masking in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application. If you want to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace RepairText
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                // Generate CSVExtractor instance
                using (CSVExtractor extractor = new CSVExtractor("demo", "demo"))
                {
                    // Load PDF document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample.pdf");

                    // Get all data
                    string allData = extractor.GetCSV();

                    // Regular expressions and replacements
                    string ssnRegex = @"\d{3}[-]?\d{2}[-]?\d{4}";
                    string ssnReplace = "***-**-****";

                    string phoneRegex = @"\d{3}[-]?\d{3}[-]?\d{4}";
                    string phoneReplace = "***-***-****";

                    // Find and mask SSN and phone numbers
                    allData = Regex.Replace(allData, ssnRegex , ssnReplace);
                    allData = Regex.Replace(allData, phoneRegex, phoneReplace);

                    // Write as CSV
                    File.WriteAllText("output.csv", allData);

                    // Open file
                    ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.csv");
                    processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
                    Process.Start(processStartInfo);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to close...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}