ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Find Text in PDF with Smart Match with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The sample source codes on this page shows how to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C#. ByteScout PDF Suite 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 find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout PDF Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace FindTextSmartMatch
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load the document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf");

            // Smart match the search string like Adobe Reader
            extractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch;

            string searchString = "land";

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();
            
            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Search for text string
                if (extractor.Find(i, searchString, false))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Output search results
                        Console.WriteLine("Found on page " + i + " at location " + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString());

                        // Now we are getting the found text
                        string extractedString = extractor.FoundText.Text;
                        Console.WriteLine("Found text: " + extractedString);
                    }
                    while (extractor.FindNext()); // Search next occurrence of the search string
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();


            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}