React PDF Tools

View, edit, and Chat-with-your-PDF with AI.

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Demo

https://react-pdf-demo-sigma.vercel.app/

Want to see the source code for the above demo? Find it here.

Quick start

1. Copy-paste the pdf-ui folder here into your own public folder.

2. Create a component

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer } from "@prodfox/react-ui-plugin";

function App() {
  const containerRef = useRef(null);

  const { download } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
    container: containerRef,
    licenseKey: "sandbox",
    locale: "en",
    tools: {
      editing: [
       "extract",
       "remove",
        "move"
      ],
      thumbnails: [
        "zoom",
        "expand"
      ],
      general: [
        "thumbnails",
        "download",
        "search",
        "panel-toggle",
        "zoom"
      ],
    },
    files: [
      {
        url: "https://pdftron.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/pl/demo-annotated.pdf",
        name: "my-file1.pdf"
      },
      {
        url: "https://pdftron.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/pl/demo-annotated.pdf",
        name: "my-file2.pdf"
      }
    ],
  });


  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={download}>Download</button>
      <div className="container" id="pdf" ref={containerRef}>
    </div>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Core

Parameters

container Required

The HTML element to attach the PDF viewer to.

tools Object {}

Control what tools are available in the UI. Available keys are thumbnails, general, editing, ...

useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  tools: {
    thumbnails: ...,
    general: ...,
    editing: ...,
  },
  ...other parameters
});

general Object []

| Field | Description | | ------- | ---------------- | | zoom | Enable zoom in/out of the document in view | | search | Enable search functions | | download | Enable downloading the document | | thumbnails | Enable a thumbnails panel | | panel-toggle | Enable the left-side panel to be togglable |

useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  tools: {
    general: [
      "zoom",
      "search",
      "download",
      "thumbnails",
      "panel-toggle"
    ],
  },
  ...other parameters
});

thumbnails Object []

| Field | Description | | ------- | ---------------- | | zoom | Enable a slider above thumbnails to increase/decrease the size of the thumbnails | | expand | Enable the thumbnails bar to be expandable to the full screen |

useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  tools: {
    thumbnails: [
      "zoom",
      "expand"
    ],
  },
  ...other parameters
});

editing Object []

| Field | Description | | ------- | ---------------- | | remove | Enable the ability to remove pages | | rotation | Enable the rotation of individual pages | | extraction | Enabling extracting out a set of pages into one document | | move | Re-arrange pages in a document |

useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  tools: {
    editing: [
      "remove",
      "rotation",
      "extraction",
      "move"
    ],
  },
  ...other parameters
});

locale string en Optional

Options:

en - English

es - Spanish

ru - Russian

(Reach out if you need a particular language added)

onFileFailed Function optional

Callback when a file fails to upload

useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  onFileFailed: (errorMessage) => {
    // handle the failure as you need
  }
});

mode string optional

Defaults to regular. Set it to split to enable being able to select split markers to be then used for splitting a document into several documents.

Functions

Combine several files into one

const { combineFiles } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

combineFiles();

Listen for when the pages are loaded for the active document

const { pagesLoaded } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

if (pagesLoaded) {
  // logic here
}

Download

const { download } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

download();

Listen for when the PDF editor is ready to accept commands

const { isReady } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

if (isReady) {
  // logic here
}

Toggle displaying the full screen thumbnail view

const { toggleFullScreenThumbnails } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

toggleFullScreenThumbnails(true) // set this to true or false to open/close it.

Control the thumbnail zoom level. Ranges from 0 to 1.

const { setThumbnailZoom } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

setThumbnailZoom(0.5)

Toggle displaying the search bar on the right

const { toggleSearchbar } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

toggleSearchbar(true) // set this to true or false to open/close it.

Delete the AI conversation chat history

const { removeChatHistory } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

removeChatHistory()

Get the 0-indexed array of selected pages

const { selectedPages } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

Extract the selected pages

const { extractPages } = useCreateIframeAndLoadViewer({
  ...
});

extractPages()