ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find Email Addresses in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find Email Addresses in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to code in C# to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It 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. It can help you to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. If you want to use these C# sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindEmailAddressesRegexp
{
    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_EmailAddress.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search email Addresses
                        string regexPattern = @"\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b";
                        // 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 Email Addresses: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

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