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Learn to find text in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

The sample shows instructions and algorithm of how to find text in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk and how to make it run in your VB.NET 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 text in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

These VB.NET code samples for VB.NET guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout PDF Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Imports System.Drawing Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor Class Program Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String()) ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance Dim extractor As New TextExtractor() extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\Invoice.pdf") extractor.RegexSearch = True ' Enable the regular expressions Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount() ' Search through pages For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1 ' Search dates in format 12/31/1999 Dim regexPattern As String = "[0-9]{2}/[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 Console.WriteLine("") Console.WriteLine(("Found on page " & i & " at location ") + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString()) Console.WriteLine("") ' Iterate through each element in the found text For Each element As ISearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements Console.WriteLine(" Text: " + element.Text) Console.WriteLine(" Font is bold: " + element.FontIsBold.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font is italic:" + element.FontIsItalic.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font name: " + element.FontName) Console.WriteLine(" Font size:" + element.FontSize.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font color:" + element.FontColor.ToString()) Console.WriteLine() Next Loop While extractor.FindNext() End If Next ' Cleanup extractor.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...") Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Class

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