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Find Text in PDF with Regex | VB.NET
Program.vb:
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Imports System.Drawing Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor ' Note: if you are looking for a more higher level API to extract data from invoices, reports, statements ' then please check Document Parser SDK and Web API at https://bytescout.com/products/developer/documentparsersdk/index.html ' and https://pdf.co for secure and scalable web api Class Program Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String()) ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance Dim extractor As New TextExtractor() extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\Invoice.pdf") extractor.RegexSearch = True ' Enable the regular expressions Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount() ' Search through pages For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1 ' Search dates in format 12/31/1999 Dim regexPattern As String = "[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}" ' See the complete regular expressions reference at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc(v=vs.110).aspx ' Search each page for the pattern If extractor.Find(i, regexPattern, False) Then Do Console.WriteLine("") Console.WriteLine(("Found on page " & i & " at location ") + extractor.FoundText.Bounds.ToString()) Console.WriteLine("") ' Iterate through each element in the found text For Each element As ISearchResultElement In extractor.FoundText.Elements Console.WriteLine(" Text: " + element.Text) Console.WriteLine(" Font is bold: " + element.FontIsBold.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font is italic:" + element.FontIsItalic.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font name: " + element.FontName) Console.WriteLine(" Font size:" + element.FontSize.ToString()) Console.WriteLine(" Font color:" + element.FontColor.ToString()) Console.WriteLine() Next Loop While extractor.FindNext() End If Next ' Cleanup extractor.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...") Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Class