ByteScout Premium Suite – VB.NET – Find keyword in pdf and extract text with pdf extractor sdk

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How to find keyword in pdf and extract text with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to code in VB.NET to find keyword in pdf and extract text with pdf extractor sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example VB.NET source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. What is ByteScout Premium Suite? It is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can help you to find keyword in pdf and extract text with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly find keyword in pdf and extract text with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Use of ByteScout Premium Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.vb

      Imports System.Drawing
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Namespace FindText

	Class Program

		Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

            ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			Dim extractor As New TextExtractor()
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

			' Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\sample2.pdf")

			Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount()

			' Search each page for some keyword 
			For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1
				If extractor.Find(i, "References", False) Then
					' 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)
					Dim text As String = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i)
					Console.WriteLine(text)
				End If
			Next

			' Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose()

			Console.WriteLine()
			Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...")
			Console.ReadLine()

		End Sub
		
	End Class

End Namespace