identify data in string

Pranjal Vaste

8y846Learn iOS Programming

I'm trying to extract name address etc from text.....

how to identify name ,address, address,mail id,contact no from string data?

are there any api for this?

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Amit Gupta8y ago
Accepted answer
As you are working with JSON, the best way to use Newtonsoft.json to deserialize the data.

Have a look to the sample,
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33633796/deserialize-json-multiple-array
Pranjal Vaste8y ago
thank you!
it was very helpful.
Pranjal Vaste8y ago
i'm working with json data format

sample data as follows:

{"language":"en","orientation":"Up","textAngle":0.0,"regions":[{"boundingBox":"21,26,147,249","lines":[{"boundingBox":"22,26,146,22","words":[{"boundingBox":"22,26,65,22","text":"Bill's"},{"boundingBox":"98,26,70,22","text":"Birds"}]},{"boundingBox":"22,66,83,14","words":[{"boundingBox":"22,66,24,14","text":"Bill"},{"boundingBox":"53,66,52,14","text":"Jones"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,92,47,13","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,92,47,13","text":"Owner"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,124,111,13","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,124,26,13","text":"202"},{"boundingBox":"53,124,39,13","text":"Silver"},{"boundingBox":"97,124,35,13","text":"Lane"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,143,137,16","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,143,61,16","text":"Maryville"},{"boundingBox":"87,143,21,13","text":"TN"},{"boundingBox":"114,143,44,13","text":"45678"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,196,136,13","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,196,25,13","text":"Tel:"},{"boundingBox":"57,196,100,13","text":"786-555-1212"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,216,135,12","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,216,29,12","text":"Fax:"},{"boundingBox":"56,216,100,12","text":"786-555-3434"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,238,127,16","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,238,127,16","text":"[email protected]"}]},{"boundingBox":"21,259,129,16","words":[{"boundingBox":"21,259,129,16","text":"www.mybirds.com"}]}]}]}
Amit Gupta8y ago
Post your sample data, so that we can have a look
Pranjal Vaste8y ago
Thank you for the reply.
yes i can use regex for mailid and contact no but how to identify person name and organization name?
Amit Gupta8y ago
You can easily use Regex expression or indexOf and Substring method to extract your required data. There's no need to use any API for that