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How to find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript ByteScout Premium Suite can find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VBScript. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly find hyphenated text in pdf with pdf extractor sdk in your VBScript application. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VBScript below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Applying VBScript 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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FindTextAndGetCoordinates.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\words-with-hyphens.pdf")

' Set the matching mode:
' 0 = WordMatchingMode.None - treats the search string as substring;
' 1 = WordMatchingMode.SmartMatch - will find the word in various forms (like Adobe Reader);
' 2 = WordMatchingMode.ExactMatch - treats the search string as separate word.
extractor.WordMatchingMode = 1

' Get page count

pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount()

For i = 0 To PageCount - 1 
 
    If extractor.Find(i, "hyphen", false) Then ' parameters are: page index, string to find, case sensitivity.
        Do
            foundMessage = "Found substring 'hyphen' on page #" & CStr(i) & " at { " & _
                "x = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Left) & "; " & _
                "y = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Top) & "; " & _
                "width = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Width) & "; " & _
                "height = " & CStr(extractor.FoundText.Height) & " }"

            elementInfo = ""

            ' Iterate through elements of the found text object
            For j = 0 to extractor.FoundText.ElementCount - 1
                Set element = extractor.FoundText.GetElement(j)	
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Element #" & CStr(j) & " at { x = " & CStr(element.Left) & "; y = " & CStr(element.Top) & "; width = " & CStr(element.Width) & "; height = " & CStr(element.Height) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Text: " & CStr(element.Text) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font is bold: " & CStr(element.FontIsBold) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font is italic: " & CStr(element.FontIsItalic) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font name: " & CStr(element.FontName) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font size: " & CStr(element.FontSize) & vbCRLF
                elementInfo = elementInfo & "Font color (as OLE_COLOR): " & CStr(element.FontColorAsOleColor) & vbCRLF & vbCRLF
            Next 

            WScript.Echo foundMessage & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & elementInfo

        Loop While extractor.FindNext
        
    End If

Next

WScript.Echo "Done"

Set extractor = Nothing