Advanced search for Digital signatures
GroupDocs.Signature provides DigitalSearchOptions class to specify different options to search for Digital Signatures.
Here are the steps to search for digital signatures within the document with GroupDocs.Signature:
- Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter.
- Instantiate the DigitalSearchOptions object according to your requirements and specify search options
- Call Search method of Signature class instance and pass DigitalSearchOptions to it.
This example shows how to make advanced search for Digital signature in the document.
using (Signature signature = new Signature("signed.pdf"))
{
DigitalSearchOptions options = new DigitalSearchOptions()
{
// specify special search criteria
Comments = "Test comment",
// certificate issues criteria
IssuerName = "John",
// digital certificate subject
SubjectName = "Test",
// specify date range period of signature
SignDateTimeFrom = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1),
SignDateTimeTo = DateTime.Now,
//
};
// search for signatures in document
List<DigitalSignature> signatures = signature.Search<DigitalSignature>(options);
Console.WriteLine("\nSource document contains following signatures.");
foreach (var digitalSignature in signatures)
{
Console.WriteLine("Digital signature found from {0} with validation flag {1}. Certificate SN {2}",
digitalSignature.SignTime, digitalSignature.IsValid, digitalSignature.Certificate?.SerialNumber);
}
}
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GitHub Examples
You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:
- GroupDocs.Signature for .NET examples, plugins, and showcase
- GroupDocs.Signature for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
- Document Signature for .NET MVC UI Example
- Document Signature for .NET App WebForms UI Example
- Document Signature for Java App Dropwizard UI Example
- Document Signature for Java Spring UI Example
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