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Text search (iOS)

There are two parts to text searching. First is the UI component that is presented to the user. Second is an API guide to perform the text search functionality.

Text search API for Xamarin.iOS

To search for text in a PDF using regular expression and then apply a link annotation on the highlighted result.

In this example, we add a link annotation but any other types of annotations can be applied here such as redaction annotations in the case of a search and redact workflow.
PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(filename);
Int32 page_num = 0;
String result_str = "", ambient_string = "";
Highlights hlts = new Highlights();
TextSearch txt_search = new TextSearch();
Int32 mode = (Int32)(TextSearch.SearchMode.e_whole_word | TextSearch.SearchMode.e_page_stop | TextSearch.SearchMode.e_highlight);
String pattern = "";

//use regular expression to find credit card number
mode |= (Int32)(TextSearch.SearchMode.e_reg_expression | TextSearch.SearchMode.e_highlight);
txt_search.SetMode(mode);
String pattern = "\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{4}-\\d{4}"; //or "(\\d{4}-){3}\\d{4}"
txt_search.SetPattern(pattern);

//call Begin() method to initialize the text search.
txt_search.Begin( doc, pattern, mode, -1, -1 );
TextSearch.ResultCode code = txt_search.Run(ref page_num, ref result_str, ref ambient_string, hlts );

if ( code == TextSearch.ResultCode.e_found )
{
  //add a link annotation based on the location of the found instance
  hlts.Begin(doc);
  while (hlts.HasNext())
  {
    Page cur_page = doc.GetPage(hlts.GetCurrentPageNumber());
    double[] quads = hlts.GetCurrentQuads();
    int quad_count = quads.Length / 8;
    for (int i = 0; i < quad_count; ++i)
    {
      //assume each quad is an axis-aligned rectangle
      int offset = 8 * i;
      double x1 = Math.Min(Math.Min(Math.Min(quads[offset + 0], quads[offset + 2]), quads[offset + 4]), quads[offset + 6]);
      double x2 = Math.Max(Math.Max(Math.Max(quads[offset + 0], quads[offset + 2]), quads[offset + 4]), quads[offset + 6]);
      double y1 = Math.Min(Math.Min(Math.Min(quads[offset + 1], quads[offset + 3]), quads[offset + 5]), quads[offset + 7]);
      double y2 = Math.Max(Math.Max(Math.Max(quads[offset + 1], quads[offset + 3]), quads[offset + 5]), quads[offset + 7]);

      Annots.Link hyper_link = Annots.Link.Create(doc, new Rect(x1, y1, x2, y2), Action.CreateURI(doc, "http://www.apryse.com"));
      hyper_link.RefreshAppearance();
      cur_page.AnnotPushBack(hyper_link);
    }
    hlts.Next();
  }
}

Search PDF files for text
Full code sample which shows how to use TextSearch to search text on PDF pages using regular expressions.

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