ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite – VB.NET – Check For Sensitive Data and PII in PDF

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check for sensitive data and PII in PDF in VB.NET

The documentation is crafted to assist you to apply the features on your side easily. ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite was made to help with check for sensitive data and PII in PDF in VB.NET. 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.

This rich and prolific sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite contains various functions and options you should do calling the API to implement check for sensitive data and PII in PDF. If you want to know how it works, then this VB.NET sample code should be copied and pasted into your application’s code editor. Then just compile and run it. These VB.NET sample examples can be used in one or many applications.

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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")

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

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

        ' Prepare TextExtractor
        Using textExtractor As New TextExtractor("demo", "demo")

            ' Load document into TextExtractor
            textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("samplePDF_EmailSSN.pdf")

            ' Enable RegexSearch
            textExtractor.RegexSearch = True

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

            ' Search SSN in format 202-55-0130
            Dim regexPatternSSN As String = "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}"

            ' Search email Addresses
            Dim regexPatternEmail As String = "\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b"

            ' Search results for SSN
            Dim searchResultsSSN() As ISearchResult = textExtractor.FindAll(0, regexPatternSSN, caseSensitive:=False)

            ' Search results for Email
            Dim searchResultEmail() As ISearchResult = textExtractor.FindAll(0, regexPatternEmail, caseSensitive:=False)

            ' Remove SSN result text objects find by SearchResults.
            remover.AddTextToRemove(searchResultsSSN)

            ' Remove Email result text objects find by SearchResults.
            remover.AddTextToRemove(searchResultEmail)

            ' 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