ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Find Text in PDF with Smart Match with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Premium Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The code displayed below will guide you to install an C# app to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK. 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 find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to find text in PDF with smart match with PDF extractor SDK. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout Premium Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace FindTextSmartMatch
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load the document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf");

            // Smart match the search string like Adobe Reader
            extractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch;

            string searchString = "land";

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();
            
            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Search for text string
                if (extractor.Find(i, searchString, false))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Output search results
                        Console.WriteLine("Found on page " + i + " at location " + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString());

                        // Now we are getting the found text
                        string extractedString = extractor.FoundText.Text;
                        Console.WriteLine("Found text: " + extractedString);
                    }
                    while (extractor.FindNext()); // Search next occurrence of the search string
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();


            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}