Search for Text e-signatures

GroupDocs.Signature providesΒ TextSearchOptionsΒ classΒ to specify different options to search for Text electronic signatures within document.

Here are the steps to search forΒ Text e-signatures using GroupDocs.Signature API:

  • Create new instance ofΒ SignatureΒ class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter;
  • Instantiate theΒ TextSearchOptionsΒ object according to your requirements and specify additional search options (if needed);
  • CallΒ SearchΒ method ofΒ SignatureΒ Β class instance and passΒ TextSearchOptionsΒ to it.

This example shows how to search forΒ Text e-signature in the document.

using (Signature signature = new Signature(sample.pdf))
{
    // setup search options
    TextSearchOptions searchOptions = new TextSearchOptions()
    {
        // search only page with specified number
        PageNumber = null,
        // specify as true to search all pages of a document
        AllPages = true,
        // specify text to search
        Text = "JS_",
        // specify text math type
        MatchType = TextMatchType.Contains
    };
    // search document
    List<TextSignature> signatures = signature.Search<TextSignature>(searchOptions);
    // output signatures
    foreach (TextSignature textSignature in signatures)
    {
        if (textSignature != null)
        {
            Console.Write($"Found Text signature: {textSignature.SignatureImplementation} with text {textSignature.Text}.");
            Console.WriteLine($"Location at {textSignature.Left}-{textSignature.Top}. Size is {textSignature.Width}x{textSignature.Height}.");
        }
    }
}

Advanced Usage Topics

To learn more about document eSign features, please refer to theΒ advanced usage section.

More resources

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in ourΒ GitHub examples:

Free Online Apps

Along with the full-featured .NET library, we provide simple but powerful free online apps.

To sign PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents you can use the online apps from the GroupDocs.Signature App Product Family.