ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

How to write a robust code in C# to find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. ByteScout PDF Suite: the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries 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 find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

If you want to try other source code samples then the free trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite is available for download from our website. Just try other source code samples for 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(@".\sample2.pdf");
			
			int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

			// Search each page for some keyword 
			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				if (extractor.Find(i, "References", false))
				{
					// If page contains the keyword, extract a text from it.
					// For demonstration we'll extract the text from top part of the page only
					extractor.SetExtractionArea(0, 0, 600, 200);
					string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
					Console.WriteLine(text);
				}
			}

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