ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find Phone Number in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find phone number in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to find phone number in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Quickly learn how to find phone number in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with this sample source code. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It is 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 help you to find phone number in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to find phone number in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindPhoneNumberRegex
{
    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_PhoneNo.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search phoneNos in format 202-555-0130
                        string regexPattern = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}";
                        // 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 Phone No: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

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