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How to find us address in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

How to write a robust code in VB.NET to find us address in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

Find us address in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk is simple to apply in VB.NET if you use these source codes below. 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 us address in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly find us address in pdf with regex with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instructions. Check VB.NET sample code samples to see if they respond to your needs and requirements for the project.

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Program.vb

      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_Address.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 Address
                    Dim 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) Then

                        Do
                            ' Iterate through each element in the found text
                            For Each element As ISearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements
                                Console.WriteLine("Found Address: " & 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