Text search in React Pdfviewer component

5 Jan 20244 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.

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import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import './index.css';
import { PdfViewerComponent, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
         ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-pdfviewer';

function App() {
  return (<div>
    <div className='control-section'>
      {/* Render the PDF Viewer */}
      <PdfViewerComponent
        id="container"
        documentPath="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/pdf/pdf-succinctly.pdf"
        enableTextSearch={true}
        style={{ 'height': '640px' }}>

              <Inject services={[ Toolbar, Annotation, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
                                  ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch]} />
      </PdfViewerComponent>
    </div>
  </div>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('sample'));
root.render(<App />);
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import './index.css';
import { PdfViewerComponent, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
         ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-pdfviewer';

function App() {
  return (<div>
    <div className='control-section'>
      {/* Render the PDF Viewer */}
      <PdfViewerComponent
        id="container"
        documentPath="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/pdf/pdf-succinctly.pdf"
        enableTextSearch={true}
        serviceUrl="https://services.syncfusion.com/react/production/api/pdfviewer"
        style={{ 'height': '640px' }}>

              <Inject services={[ Toolbar, Annotation, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView,
                                  ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch]} />
      </PdfViewerComponent>
    </div>
  </div>);
}
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('sample'));
root.render(<App />);

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 .

Text search in React Pdfviewer component

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