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How to remove sensitive data from scanned document in VB.NET with ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite

Learn to code in VB.NET to remove sensitive data from scanned document with this step-by-step tutorial

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to remove sensitive data from scanned document in VB.NET ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite can remove sensitive data from scanned document. It can be applied from 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite works best when you need to quickly remove sensitive data from scanned document in your VB.NET application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Use of ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite in VB.NET is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

You can download free trial version of ByteScout Sensitive Data Suite from our website with this and other source code samples for VB.NET.

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Imports System.IO Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor Class Program Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String()) Dim searchablePDFStream As New MemoryStream() ' STEP-1 Make Searchable PDF ' STEP-2: Get search text result from that searchable PDF ' STEP-3: Remove sensitive data ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.SearchablePDFMaker instance Using searchablePDFMaker As New SearchablePDFMaker("demo", "demo") ' Load sample PDF document searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sampleScannedPDF_EmailAddress.pdf") ' Set the location of language data files searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\" ' Set OCR language searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng" ' "eng" For english, "deu" For German, "fra" For French, "spa" For Spanish etc - according To files In "ocrdata" folder ' Set PDF document rendering resolution searchablePDFMaker.OCRResolution = 300 ' Save extracted text to file searchablePDFMaker.MakePDFSearchable(searchablePDFStream) ' Prepare TextExtractor Using textExtractor As New TextExtractor("demo", "demo") ' Load stream into TextExtractor textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromStream(searchablePDFStream) ' Search email Addresses 'See the complete regular expressions reference at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc(v=vs.110).aspx Dim regexPattern As String = "\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b" ' Enable RegexSearch textExtractor.RegexSearch = True ' Set word matching options textExtractor.WordMatchingMode = WordMatchingMode.None Dim searchResults() As ISearchResult = textExtractor.FindAll(0, regexPattern, caseSensitive:=False) ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.Remover instance Using remover As New Remover2("demo", "demo") ' Load sample PDF document remover.LoadDocumentFromStream(searchablePDFStream) ' Mask removed text remover.MaskRemovedText = True ' Make output file unsearchable remover.MakePDFUnsearchable = True ' Provide text to remove remover.AddTextToRemove(searchResults) ' Remove text objects find by SearchResults. remover.PerformRemoval("result1.pdf") End Using End Using End Using 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

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