Overview
The React PDF Viewer is a lightweight and modular component for viewing and printing PDF files. It provides the best viewing experience available with core interactions such as zooming, scrolling, text searching, text selection, and text copying. The thumbnail, bookmark, hyperlink and table of contents support provides easy navigation within and outside the PDF files.
Why choose Syncfusion React PDF Viewer?
High performance
Thousands of PDF pages can be loaded instantly. On-demand loading and virtualization support helps reduce the initial loading time for larger PDF files.
Rich annotating tools
The React PDF Viewer offers various annotations including including text markup, shape, stamp, sticky note, measurement, free-text, and ink.
Easy to interact
The React PDF Viewer Offers selection and panning interaction modes in your loaded PDF documents, making interaction easier.
Flexible comment panel
The comment panel can be used to add comments as annotations, replies to comments, and statuses to the PDF file.
Add handwritten signatures
You can add handwritten signature to your PDF files. Customize them by resizing, moving, deleting, and saving them. They enhance the digital process.
Adapts to any resolution
The React PDF Viewer is designed to be responsive with an optimized design for desktops, touchscreens, and smart phones. It works well on all mobile phones that use iOS, Android, or Windows OS.
Attractive, customizable themes
Cutting-edge design with several built-in themes, such as Fluent, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material, and Fabric. Utilize the online Theme Studio tool to customize themes easily.
Globalization and localization
Enables users from different locales to use the component by formatting the text content to suit their preferences.
React PDF Viewer Code Example
Easily get started with the React PDF Viewer using a few simple lines of TSX code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our React PDF Viewer Example that shows you how to render and configure a PDF Viewer in React.
/** * Default PDF Viewer sample */import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';import * as React from 'react';import { PdfViewerComponent, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, FormFields, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-pdfviewer';import { SampleBase } from '../common/sample-base';import { RouteComponentProps } from 'react-router';export class Default extends SampleBase<{}, {}> { render() { return ( <div> <div className='control-section'> {/* Render the PDF Viewer */} <PdfViewerComponent id="container" documentPath="PDF_Succinctly.pdf" serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer" style=> <Inject services={[Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, FormFields]} /> </PdfViewerComponent> </div> </div> ); }}
Open PDF file
Open and display both normal PDF files and those protected with AES and RC4 encryption algorithms (password protected). Open PDF files from stream, file paths, and as byte arrays.
Review or annotate PDF files
Review PDF files using a rich set of annotating tools in the React PDF Viewer.
- Annotations example
Highlight text
Users can highlight important text in React PDF files and customize the color of the highlighted text.
- Highlight text documentation
Underline text
Underline important text in PDF files. You can customize the color of the underline.
- Underline text documentation
Strikethrough
Strikethrough unimportant text in PDF files. You can customize the color of the strikethrough.
- Strikethrough documentation
Shape annotations
Use drawing tools to add rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, arrow, and polygon to a PDF file. The shapes can also be moved, resized, and customized.
- Shape annotation documentation
Calibrate - Measuring tools
Measure the distance, area, radius, volume, and perimeter of the objects using measurement tools.
- Measurement annotation documentation
Stamp a document
Add stamps to a PDF file like applying rubber stamps to a paper document from the list of built-in stamps or create your own stamps.
- Stamp annotation documentation
Free-text annotation
Include free text in PDF files. You can move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of free text.
- Free-text annotation documentation
Sticky notes and comments
Add sticky notes and comments anywhere in a PDF file. It can be moved and removed.
- Stick notes documentation
Handwritten signature
Add handwritten signature to PDF files. The signature can be resized, moved, removed, saved, and customized.
- Handwritten signature example
- Handwritten signature documentation
Responsive rendering
The React PDF Viewer is engineered to be responsive and can withstand changes in the size of the parent element.
Printing PDFs
The PDF Viewer in React supports printing loaded PDF document along with adding and modifying annotation and signature details.
- Printing documentation
The React PDF Viewer component comes with a powerful built-in toolbar to execute the most important actions such as page navigation, text search, view mode, downloading, and various annotation actions. You can design your own toolbar as required with PDF Viewer APIs.
- Toolbar documentation
Form designer
The React PDF Viewer control provides the option to add, edit, and delete form fields. The form field types supported by the PDF Viewer control are text box, password, checkbox, radio button, list box, dropdown, signature field, and initial field. The form field values can be exported to and imported from JSON, XFDF, FDF, and XML formats.
- Form designer example
- Form designer documentation
Import and export annotations
Annotations in a PDF file can be exported as JSON and stored in the database. You can also import annotation JSON data to a PDF file.
- Annotations example
- Import and export annotations documentation
Organize pages
Effortlessly enhance the viewing and alignment of PDF pages by rotating them clockwise or counterclockwise. Easily insert new pages and eliminate unnecessary ones. Furthermore, rearrange pages within a document and duplicate them with ease. You can also revert or redo any changes made using the Organize Pages dialog.
Navigation
The React PDF Viewer control supports different internal and external navigations.
- Navigation documentation
Bookmark navigation
Bookmarks saved in PDF files are loaded and made ready for easy navigation. Navigate within the PDF file of the topics bookmarked already.
- Bookmark navigation documentation
Thumbnail navigation
Thumbnails are miniature representations of actual pages in PDF files. This feature displays thumbnails of the pages and allows navigation.
- Thumbnail navigation documentation
Hyperlink navigation
Hyperlink navigation feature enables navigation to URLs (website links) in a PDF file.
- Hyperlink navigation documentation
Table of contents navigation
Table of contents navigation allows users to navigate to different parts of a PDF file that are listed in the table of contents section.
- Table of contents navigation documentation
Zooming and Panning
Zoom in and out allows users to view a page closer and view a larger part of the page, respectively. Additionally, users can navigate by panning from one region of the React PDF Viewer page to another.
- Zooming and panning documentation
Select and copy text
The React PDF Viewer with rich UI allows users to select the text in the PDF document and copy it to the clipboard. This is helpful for sharing text content with others.
Search text
Locate all occurrences of a given text and navigate through them found occurrences easily.
- Search text documentation
Create a custom toolbar that includes any of the options available in the built-in toolbar.
- Custom toolbar example
- Toolbar customization documentation
Interaction mode
Selection mode
In this mode, the text selection can be performed in the PDF document loaded in PDF Viewer. The panning and scrolling of the pages by touch cannot be performed in this mode. It allows users to select and copy text from the PDF files.
- Selection mode documentation
Panning Mode
In this mode, the panning and scrolling of the pages by touch can be performed in the PDF document loaded in the PDF Viewer, but the text selection cannot be performed.
- Panning mode documentation
Accessibility
Keyboard navigation
The React PDF Viewer component ensures that every tool is accessible using the keyboard. Major operations like open file, page navigation, zoom ratio, add comments, show or hide annotation and form designer toolbars, print, and download can be done without any mouse interaction. This helps in creating highly accessible applications.
Screen reader
The React PDF Viewer has complete WAI-ARIA accessibility support. The PDF Viewer UI includes high-contrast visual elements that help visually impaired people to have the best viewing experience. Also, valid UI descriptions are easily accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers.
Right to left (RTL)
Right-to-left rendering allows displaying the text and layout of the PDF Viewer from right to left. This improves the user experience and accessibility for RTL languages.
- RTL example
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