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How to find ssn number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Suite

How to write a robust code in VB.NET to find ssn number in pdf with regex 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 ssn number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

This prolific sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to find ssn number in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instructions. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor Module Program Sub Main() Try ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance Using extractor As TextExtractor = New TextExtractor() extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("samplePDF_SSNNo.pdf") ' Enable the regular expression extractor.RegexSearch = True Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount() ' Search through pages For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1 ' Search SSN in format 202-55-0130 Dim regexPattern As String = "[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) Then Do ' Iterate through each element in the found text For Each element As ISearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements Console.WriteLine("Found SSN No: " & element.Text) Next Loop While extractor.FindNext() End If Next End Using Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine("Error: " & ex.Message) End Try Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to continue...") Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module

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