ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Find Email Addresses in PDF with Regex with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout Premium Suite

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

Sample source code below will display you how to manage a complex task like find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can find email addresses in PDF with regex with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace FindEmailAddressesRegexp
{
    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_EmailAddress.pdf");

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

                    int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

                    // Search through pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
                    {
                        // Search email Addresses
                        string regexPattern = @"\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b";
                        // 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 Email Addresses: " + element.Text);
                                }
                            }
                            while (extractor.FindNext());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
            }

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