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

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

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#

This sample source code below will display you how to find US address in PDF with regex 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 and you can use it to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to find US address in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindUsAddressRegex
{
    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_Address.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search Address
                        string regexPattern = @"((\w+[ ,])+ ){2}([a-zA-Z]){2}[ , ] (\d+)";
                        // 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 Address: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

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