Advanced search for Text signatures
GroupDocs.Signature provides TextSearchOptions class to specify different options to search for Text Signatures.
Here are the steps to search for text signatures within the document with GroupDocs.Signature:
- Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter.
- Instantiate the TextSearchOptions object according to your requirements and specify search options.
- Call Search method of Signature class instance and pass TextSearchOptions to it.
This example shows how to make advanced search for Text signature in the document.
using (Signature signature = new Signature(sample.pdf))
{
// setup search options
TextSearchOptions searchOptions = new TextSearchOptions()
{
// specify special pages to search on
AllPages = false,
// single page number
PageNumber = 1,
// setup extended search in pages setup
PagesSetup = new PagesSetup() { FirstPage = true, LastPage = true, OddPages = false, EvenPages = false },
// specify text match type
MatchType = TextMatchType.Exact,
// specify text pattern to search
Text = "John Smith"
};
// 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}.");
}
}
}
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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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