ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite – C# – Black out PII Data From PDF

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ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite – C# – Black out PII Data From PDF

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black out PII data from PDF in C# with ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite

Learn to code in C# to make black out PII data from PDF with this simple How-To tutorial

ByteScout tutorials describe the stuff for programmers who use C#. ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite was created to assist black out PII data from PDF in C#. ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite is the set that includes SDK tools from ByteScout for working with sensitive and personal data. With these tools you may analyze, redact, remove, blackout sensitive data in documents and pdf.

If you want to quickly learn then these fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite for C# plus the guideline and the C# code below will help you quickly learn black out PII data from PDF. To use black out PII data from PDF in your C# project or application just copy & paste the code and then run your app! C# application implementation mostly involves various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please check it with your data and the production environment.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Drawing;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace BlackOutPIIDataFromPDF
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.Remover2 instance
            Remover2 remover = new Remover2("demo", "demo");

            // Mask removed text, which ultimately black out region
            remover.MaskRemovedText = true;

            // Load sample PDF document
            remover.LoadDocumentFromFile(@"samplePDF_SSNNo.pdf");

            // Prepare TextExtractor
            using (TextExtractor textExtractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo"))
            {
                // Load document into TextExtractor
                textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@"samplePDF_SSNNo.pdf");

                // Search SSN in format 202-55-0130
                // See the complete regular expressions reference at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc(v=vs.110).aspx
                string regexPattern = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}";

                // Enable RegexSearch
                textExtractor.RegexSearch = true;

                // Set word matching options
                textExtractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.None;

                // Search results
                ISearchResult[] searchResults = textExtractor.FindAll(0, regexPattern, caseSensitive: false);

                // Remove text objects find by SearchResults.
                remover.AddTextToRemove(searchResults);

                // Perform removal of specified objects
                remover.PerformRemoval(@"result1.pdf");
            }

            // Open output file in default application
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("result1.pdf");

            // Clean up.
            remover.Dispose();
        }
    }
}