ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Find Keyword And Extract Text in PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find keyword and extract text in PDF 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 keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Sample source code below will display you how to manage a complex task like find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can be applied to find keyword and extract text in PDF with PDF extractor SDK using C#.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Drawing;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace FindText
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");
			
			int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

			// Search each page for some keyword 
			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				if (extractor.Find(i, "References", false))
				{
					// If page contains the keyword, extract a text from it.
					// For demonstration we'll extract the text from top part of the page only
					extractor.SetExtractionArea(0, 0, 600, 200);
					string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
					Console.WriteLine(text);
				}
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();
			
			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
			Console.ReadLine();
		}
	}
}