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How to find text in pdf 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 text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

The code displayed below will guide you to install an VB.NET app to find text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk. 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 text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

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Program.vb

      Imports System.Drawing
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

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(".\sample1.pdf")
            
            ' Set the matching mode.
            ' WordMatchingMode.None - treats the search string as substring;
            ' WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch - treats the search string as separate word;
            ' WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch - will find the word in various forms (like Adobe Reader).
            extractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch

            Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount()

            For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1
                ' Search each page for "ipsum" string
                If extractor.Find(i, "ipsum", False) Then
                    Do
                        Console.WriteLine("")
                        Console.WriteLine(("Found on page " & i & " at location ") + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString())
                        Console.WriteLine("")
                        ' Iterate through each element in the found text
                        For Each element As SearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements
                        Console.WriteLine((((("Element #" + element.Index.ToString() & " at left=") + element.Left.ToString() & "; top=") + element.Top.ToString() & "; width=") + element.Width.ToString() & "; height=") + element.Height.ToString())
                        Console.WriteLine("Text: " + element.Text)
                        Console.WriteLine("Font is bold: " + element.FontIsBold.ToString())
                        Console.WriteLine("Font is italic:" + element.FontIsItalic.ToString())
                        Console.WriteLine("Font name: " + element.FontName)
                        Console.WriteLine("Font size:" + element.FontSize.ToString())
                        Console.WriteLine("Font color:" + element.FontColor.ToString())

                        Next
                    Loop While extractor.FindNext()
                End If
            Next

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

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