Sample Code C#
using System.Web.Mvc; namespace SelectPdf.Samples.Controllers { public class SearchPdfTextController : Controller { // GET: SearchPdfText public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult SubmitAction(FormCollection collection) { // the test file string filePdf = Server.MapPath("~/files/selectpdf.pdf"); // settings bool caseSensitive = collection["ChkCaseSensitive"] == "on"; bool wholeWordsOnly = collection["ChkWholeWordsOnly"] == "on"; // instantiate a pdf to text converter object PdfToText pdfToText = new PdfToText(); // load PDF file pdfToText.Load(filePdf); // search for text and retrieve all found text positions TextPosition[] positions = pdfToText.Search(collection["TxtSearchText"], caseSensitive, wholeWordsOnly); // open the existing PDF document in editing mode PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(filePdf); // highlight the found text in the existing PDF document for (int i = 0; i < positions.Length; i++) { TextPosition position = (TextPosition)positions[i]; PdfPage page = doc.Pages[position.PageNumber - 1]; PdfRectangleElement rect = new PdfRectangleElement( position.X, position.Y, position.Width, position.Height); rect.BackColor = new PdfColor(240, 240, 0); rect.Transparency = 30; page.Add(rect); } // save pdf document byte[] pdf = doc.Save(); // close pdf document doc.Close(); // return resulted pdf document FileResult fileResult = new FileContentResult(pdf, "application/pdf"); fileResult.FileDownloadName = "Document.pdf"; return fileResult; } } }