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Sample source code below will display you how to manage a complex task like find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript. ByteScout PDF Suite can find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VBScript. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout PDF Suite works best when you need to quickly find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in your VBScript application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VBScript code. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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FindTextAndGetCoordinates.vbs
      
' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor") extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\words-with-hyphens.pdf") ' Set the matching mode: ' 0 = WordMatchingMode.None - treats the search string as substring; ' 1 = WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch - will find the word in various forms (like Adobe Reader); ' 2 = WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch - treats the search string as separate word. extractor.WordMatchingMode = 1 ' Get page count pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount() For i = 0 To PageCount - 1 If extractor.Find(i, "hyphen", false) Then ' parameters are: page index, string to find, case sensitivity. Do foundMessage = "Found substring 'hyphen' on page #" & CStr(i) & " at { " & _ "x = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Left) & "; " & _ "y = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Top) & "; " & _ "width = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Width) & "; " & _ "height = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Height) & " }" elementInfo = "" ' Iterate through elements of the found text object For j = 0 to extractor.FoundText.ElementCount - 1 Set element = extractor.FoundText.GetElement(j) elementInfo = elementInfo & "Element #" & CStr(j) & " at { x = " & CStr(element.Left) & "; y = " & CStr(element.Top) & "; width = " & CStr(element.Width) & "; height = " & CStr(element.Height) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Text: " & CStr(element.Text) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font is bold: " & CStr(element.FontIsBold) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font is italic: " & CStr(element.FontIsItalic) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font name: " & CStr(element.FontName) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font size: " & CStr(element.FontSize) & vbCRLF elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font color (as OLE_COLOR): " & CStr(element.FontColorAsOleColor) & vbCRLF & vbCRLF Next WScript.Echo foundMessage & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & elementInfo Loop While extractor.FindNext End If Next WScript.Echo "Done" Set extractor = Nothing

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