ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite – VB.NET – Black out PII Data From PDF

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black out PII data from PDF in VB.NET using ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite

Learn black out PII data from PDF in VB.NET

The samples of source code documentation give a quick and simple method to apply a required functionality into your application. ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite helps with black out PII data from PDF in VB.NET. ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite is the bundle that includes multiple components from ByteScout for working with sensitive and personal data. With these components you may analyze, redact, remove, blackout sensitive data in documents and pdf.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System.Drawing
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program

    Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

        ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.Remover2 instance
        Dim remover As New Remover2("demo", "demo")

        ' Load sample PDF document
        remover.LoadDocumentFromFile("samplePDF_SSNNo.pdf")

        ' Mask removed text, which ultimately black out region
        remover.MaskRemovedText = True

        ' Prepare TextExtractor
        Using textExtractor As 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
            Dim regexPattern As String = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}"

            ' Enable RegexSearch
            textExtractor.RegexSearch = True

            ' Set word matching options
            textExtractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.None

            Dim searchResults() As ISearchResult = textExtractor.FindAll(0, regexPattern, caseSensitive:=False)

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

            ' Perform removal of specified objects
            remover.PerformRemoval("result1.pdf")

        End Using

        ' Clean up.
        remover.Dispose()

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open result PDF files in default PDF viewer...")
        Console.ReadKey()

        Process.Start("result1.pdf")

    End Sub

End Class