Text search in EJ2 TypeScript Pdfviewer control

13 Oct 20232 minutes to read

The Text Search option in PDF Viewer is used to find and highlight the text content from the document. You can enable/disable the text search using the following code snippet.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="resources/favicon.ico" />
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <!--style reference from app-->
    <link href="/styles/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <!--system js reference and configuration-->
    <script src="node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.src.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="system.config.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <!--Element which will render as PdfViewer -->
    <div id="PdfViewer"></div>
</body>

</html>
import { PdfViewer, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, Annotation, LinkAnnotation,ThumbnailView,BookmarkView, TextSelection} from '@syncfusion/ej2-pdfviewer';

PdfViewer.Inject(Toolbar,Magnification,Navigation, Annotation, LinkAnnotation,ThumbnailView,BookmarkView, TextSelection);

let pdfviewer: PdfViewer = new PdfViewer({enableTextSearch: true, documentPath:'https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/pdf/pdf-succinctly.pdf'});
pdfviewer.appendTo('#PdfViewer');
import { PdfViewer, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, Annotation, LinkAnnotation,ThumbnailView,BookmarkView, TextSelection} from '@syncfusion/ej2-pdfviewer';

PdfViewer.Inject(Toolbar,Magnification,Navigation, Annotation, LinkAnnotation,ThumbnailView,BookmarkView, TextSelection);

let pdfviewer: PdfViewer = new PdfViewer({enableTextSearch: true, documentPath:'https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/pdf/pdf-succinctly.pdf'});
pdfviewer.serviceUrl = 'https://services.syncfusion.com/js/production/api/pdfviewer';
pdfviewer.appendTo('#PdfViewer');

The following text search methods are available in the PDF Viewer,

  • Search text:- Searches the target text in the PDF document and highlights the occurrences in the pages.
  • Search next:- Searches the next occurrence of the searched text from the current occurrence of the PdfViewer.
  • Search previous:- Searches the previous occurrence of the searched text from the current occurrence of the PdfViewer.
  • Cancel text search:- The text search can be cancelled and the highlighted occurrences from the PDF Viewer can be removed .

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