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

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How to find SSN in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

This code in C# shows how to find SSN in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

An easy to understand guide on how to find SSN in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with this source code sample. 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. It can find SSN in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly find SSN in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in your C# application. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindSSNNumberRegexp
{
    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_SSNNo.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search SSN in format 202-55-0130
                        string regexPattern = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[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 SSN 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();
        }
    }
}