Text Search in React PDF Viewer component

22 Oct 2021 / 2 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.

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

export class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
  render() {
    return ( <div>
        <div className='control-section'>
            {/* Render the PDF Viewer */}
            <PdfViewerComponent id="container" documentPath="PDF_Succinctly.pdf" enableTextSearch={true}
             serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer" style={{ 'height': '640px' }}>
                <Inject services={[Toolbar, Annotation, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch]} />
            </PdfViewerComponent>
          </div>
        </div>
    );
  }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));

import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import { PdfViewerComponent, Toolbar, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch, Annotation, Inject } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-pdfviewer';
export class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (<div>
        <div className='control-section'>
            
            <PdfViewerComponent id="container" documentPath="PDF_Succinctly.pdf" enableTextSearch={true} serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer" style={{ 'height': '640px' }}>
                <Inject services={[Toolbar, Annotation, Magnification, Navigation, LinkAnnotation, BookmarkView, ThumbnailView, Print, TextSelection, TextSearch]}/>
            </PdfViewerComponent>
          </div>
        </div>);
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('sample'));

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 PDF Viewer component

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