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How to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Premium Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

The sample shows instructions and algorithm of how to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk and how to make it run in your VB.NET application. What is ByteScout Premium Suite? It is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can help you to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application.

This prolific sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to find email addresses in pdf using regex with pdf extractor sdk. Simply copy and paste in your VB.NET project or application you and then run your app! Applying VB.NET application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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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_EmailAddress.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 Email addresses
                    Dim regexPattern As String = "\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) Then

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