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GroupDocs.Signature for Python via .NET provides the TextSearchOptions class to specify different options for searching Text electronic signatures within documents.
Here are the steps to search for Text e-signatures using GroupDocs.Signature API:
- Create a new instance of the Signature class and pass the source document path as a constructor parameter.
- Instantiate the TextSearchOptions object according to your requirements and specify additional search options (if needed).
- Call the search method of the Signature class instance and pass the TextSearchOptions to it.
This example shows how to search for Text e-signatures in a document using Python:
import groupdocs.signature as signature
from groupdocs.signature.options import TextSearchOptions
from groupdocs.signature.domain import TextMatchType
# Initialize signature
with signature.Signature("sample.pdf") as sign:
# Setup search options
search_options = TextSearchOptions()
# Search only page with specified number (None for all pages)
search_options.page_number = None
# Specify as True to search all pages of a document
search_options.all_pages = True
# Specify text to search
search_options.text = "JS_"
# Specify text match type
search_options.match_type = TextMatchType.CONTAINS
# Search document
signatures = sign.search(search_options)
# Output signatures
for text_signature in signatures:
print(f"Found Text signature: {text_signature.signature_implementation} "
f"with text {text_signature.text}.")
print(f"Location at {text_signature.left}-{text_signature.top}. "
f"Size is {text_signature.width}x{text_signature.height}.")
Here’s an example showing how to use more advanced search options:
import groupdocs.signature as signature
from groupdocs.signature.options import TextSearchOptions
from groupdocs.signature.domain import TextMatchType
# Initialize signature
with signature.Signature("sample.pdf") as sign:
# Setup search options
search_options = TextSearchOptions()
# Search on specific pages
search_options.page_number = 1
search_options.all_pages = False
# Search for text with specific match type
search_options.text = "John"
search_options.match_type = TextMatchType.EXACT
# Search with specific signature implementation
search_options.signature_implementation = signature.TextSignatureImplementation.NATIVE
# Search document
signatures = sign.search(search_options)
# Process found signatures
for text_signature in signatures:
print(f"Found Text signature: {text_signature.text}")
print(f"Page number: {text_signature.page_number}")
print(f"Position: X={text_signature.left}, Y={text_signature.top}")
print(f"Size: {text_signature.width}x{text_signature.height}")
print(f"Font: {text_signature.font.family_name}, Size: {text_signature.font.size}")
print(f"Color: {text_signature.fore_color}")
You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:
Along with the full-featured Python 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.
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