React-PDF

Easily display PDF files in your React application.

tl;dr

• Install by executing npm install react-pdf or yarn add react-pdf.
• Import by addding import { Document } from 'react-pdf'.
• Use by adding <Document file="..." />. file can be a URL, base64 content, Uint8Array, and more.
• Put <Page /> components inside <Document /> to render pages.

Demo

Minimal demo page is included in sample directory.

Online demo is also available!

Getting started

Compatibility

Your project needs to use React 15.5 or later. If you use older version of React, please refer to the table below to find suitable React-PDF version.

|React version|Newest supported React-PDF| |----|----| |>15.5|latest| |>15.0|1.6.1| |>0.14|0.0.10| |>0.13|0.0.10| |>0.11|0.0.4|

Installation

Add React-PDF to your project by executing npm install react-pdf or yarn add react-pdf.

Usage

Here's an example of basic usage:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Document, Page } from 'react-pdf';

class MyApp extends Component {
  state = {
    numPages: null,
    pageNumber: 1,
  }

  onDocumentLoad({ numPages }) {
    this.setState({ numPages });
  }

  render() {
    const { pageNumber, numPages } = this.state;

    return (
      <div>
        <Document
          file="somefile.pdf"
          onLoadSuccess={this.onDocumentLoad}
        >
          <Page pageNumber={pageNumber} />
        </Document>
        <p>Page {pageNumber} of {numPages}</p>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Check the sample directory of this repository for a full working example.

Enable PDF.js worker

It is crucial for performance to use PDF.js worker whenever possible. This ensures that your PDF file will be rendered in a separate thread without affecting page performance. To make things a little easier, we've prepared several entry points you can use.

Webpack

If you use Webpack, you're in luck. Instead of directly importing/requiring 'react-pdf', import it like so:

import { Document } from 'react-pdf/build/entry.webpack';

…and you're all set!

Browserify and others

If you use Browserify or other bundling tools, you will have to make sure on your own that pdf.worker.js file from pdfjs-dist/build is copied to your project's output folder.

I give up

If you absolutely have to, you can import React PDF with worker disabled. You can do so by importing React-PDF like so:

import { Document } from 'react-pdf/build/entry.noworker';

Support for non-latin characters

If you want to ensure that PDFs with non-latin characters will render perfectly, or you have encountered the following warning:

Warning: CMap baseUrl must be specified, see "PDFJS.cMapUrl" (and also "PDFJS.cMapPacked").

then you would also need to include cMaps in your build and tell React-PDF where they are.

Copying cMaps

First, you need to copy cMaps from pdfjs-dist (React-PDF's dependency - it should be in your node_modules if you have React-PDF installed). cMaps are located in pdfjs-dist/cmaps.

Webpack

Add copy-webpack-plugin to your project if you haven't already:

npm install copy-webpack-plugin --save-dev

Now, in your Webpack config, import the plugin:

import CopyWebpackPlugin from 'copy-webpack-plugin';

and in plugins section of your config, add the following:

new CopyWebpackPlugin([
  {
    from: 'node_modules/pdfjs-dist/cmaps/',
    to: 'cmaps/'
  },
]),

Browserify and others

If you use Browserify or other bundling tools, you will have to make sure on your own that cMaps are copied to your project's output folder.

Setting up React-PDF

Now that you have cMaps in your build, import setOptions like so:

import { setOptions } from 'react-pdf';

Note: If you're using a different entry point, for example react-pdf/build/entry.webpack', you can should use the same entry point to import setOptions. You can also add setOptions to the same import you're using to import Document, Page, and/or other components.

setOptions({
  cMapUrl: 'cmaps/',
  cMapPacked: true,
});

User guide

Document

Loads a document passed using file prop.

Props

|Prop name|Description|Example values| |----|----|----| |className|Defines custom class name(s), that will be added to rendered element along with the default ReactPDF__Document.|String:"custom-class-name-1 custom-class-name-2"Array of strings:["custom-class-name-1", "custom-class-name-2"]| |error|Defines what the component should display in case of an error. Defaults to "Failed to load PDF file.".|String:"An error occurred!"React element:<div>An error occurred!</div>Function:this.renderError()| |file|Defines what PDF should be displayed.Its value can be an URL, a file (imported using import ... from ... or from file input form element), or an object with parameters (url - URL; data - data, preferably Uint8Array; range - PDFDataRangeTransport; httpHeaders - custom request headers, e.g. for authorization), withCredentials - a boolean to indicate whether or not to include cookies in the request (defaults to false).|URL:"http://example.com/sample.pdf"File:import sample from '../static/sample.pdf' and thensampleParameter object:{ url: 'http://example.com/sample.pdf', httpHeaders: { 'X-CustomHeader': '40359820958024350238508234' }, withCredentials: true }| |loading|Defines what the component should display while loading. Defaults to "Loading PDF…".|String:"Please wait!"React element:<div>Please wait!</div>Function:this.renderLoader()| |noData|Defines what the component should display in case of no data. Defaults to "No PDF file specified.".|String:"Please select a file."React element:<div>Please select a file.</div>Function:this.renderNoData()| |onLoadError|Function called in case of an error while loading a document.|(error) => alert('Error while loading document! ' + error.message)| |onLoadSuccess|Function called when the document is successfully loaded.|(pdf) => alert('Loaded a file with ' + pdf.numPages + ' pages!')| |onSourceError|Function called in case of an error while retrieving document source from file prop.|(error) => alert('Error while retreiving document source! ' + error.message)| |onSourceSuccess|Function called when document source is successfully retreived from file prop.|() => alert('Document source retreived!')| |rotate|Defines the rotation of the document in degrees. If provided, will change rotation globally, even for the pages which were given rotate prop of their own. 90 = rotated to the right, 180 = upside down, 270 = rotated to the left.|90|

Page

Displays a page. Must be placed inside <Document /> or have pdf prop passed, which can be obtained from <Document />'s onLoadSuccess callback function.

Note: <Page/> must be a direct child of <Document /> component. <Document /> passes necessary props only to its direct children. If you wish to put a component in between of <Document /> and <Page/>, you must ensure to pass all the props to <Page/> component by yourself.

Props

|Prop name|Description|Example values| |----|----|----| |className|Defines custom class name(s), that will be added to rendered element along with the default ReactPDF__Page.|String:"custom-class-name-1 custom-class-name-2"Array of strings:["custom-class-name-1", "custom-class-name-2"]| |onLoadError|Function called in case of an error while loading the page.|(error) => alert('Error while loading page! ' + error.message)| |onLoadSuccess|Function called when the page is successfully loaded.|(page) => alert('Now displaying a page number ' + page.pageNumber + '!')| |onRenderError|Function called in case of an error while rendering the page.|(error) => alert('Error while loading page! ' + error.message)| |onRenderSuccess|Function called when the page is successfully rendered on the screen.|() => alert('Rendered the page!')| |pageIndex|Defines which page from PDF file should be displayed. Defaults to 0.|0| |pageNumber|Defines which page from PDF file should be displayed. If provided, pageIndex prop will be ignored. Defaults to 1.|1| |renderAnnotations|Defined whether annotations (e.g. links) should be rendered. Defaults to true.|false| |renderTextLayer|Defines whether a text layer should be rendered. Defaults to true.|false| |rotate|Defines the rotation of the page in degrees. 90 = rotated to the right, 180 = upside down, 270 = rotated to the left. Defaults to page's default setting, usually 0.|90| |scale|Defines the scale in which PDF file should be rendered. Defaults to 1.0.|0.5| |width|Defines the width of the page. If not defined, canvas will be rendered at the width defined in PDF. If you define width and scale at the same time, the width will be multiplied by a given factor.|300|

Outline

Displays an outline (table of contents). Must be placed inside <Document /> or have pdf prop passed, which can be obtained from <Document />'s onLoadSuccess callback function.

Props

|Prop name|Description|Example values| |----|----|----| |className|Defines custom class name(s), that will be added to rendered element along with the default ReactPDF__Outline.|String:"custom-class-name-1 custom-class-name-2"Array of strings:["custom-class-name-1", "custom-class-name-2"]| |onItemClick|Function called when an item has been clicked.|({ pageNumber }) => alert('Clicked an item from page ' + pageNumber + '!')| |onLoadError|Function called in case of an error while retreiving the outline.|(error) => alert('Error while retreiving the outline! ' + error.message)| |onLoadSuccess|Function called when the outline is successfully retreived.|() => alert('The outline has been successfully retreived.')| |onParseError|Function called in case of an error while parsing the outline.|(error) => alert('Error while parsing the outline! ' + error.message)| |onParseSuccess|Function called when the outline is successfully parsed.|({ outline }) => alert('There are ' + outline.length + ' top level items in the table of contents.')|

setOptions

Allows to set custom options of PDF.js renderer. Currently supported properties are:

• cMapUrl
• cMapPacked
• disableWorker
• workerSrc

Example usage:

setOptions({
  workerSrc: 'my-path-to-worker.js'
});

License

The MIT License.

Author

Thank you

This project wouldn't be possible without awesome work of Niklas Närhinen [email protected] who created its initial version and without Mozilla, author of pdf.js. Thank you!