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October 9, 2025 - Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.. Latest version: 10.2.0, last published: 2 months ago. Start using react-pdf in your project by running `npm i react-pdf`. There are 985 other projects in the npm registry using ...
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Published Oct 09, 2025
Version 10.2.0
Author Wojciech Maj
Repository https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf
GitHub
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GitHub - wojtekmaj/react-pdf: Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images.
Display PDFs in your React app as easily as if they were images. - wojtekmaj/react-pdf
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A deep dive into PDF.js layers and how to render truly interactive PDFs in React.
Looks like a great learning resource when I start on the next project I want to do. Bookmarking for later. More on reddit.com
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July 9, 2025reactjs - How to use PDF.JS with React? - Stack Overflow
I would like to parse a pdf file in a React app. The pdf will be provided through a html input. I used pdf-parse - a wrapper around pdf.js in node - without any problem. But when it comes to React, I More on stackoverflow.com
How to Use Mozilla PDF.js with React.js for Client-Side Rendering & Basic Tools?
Alternative: use an iframe inside your reactjs project, call pdfjs viewer and customise this page to your needs More on reddit.com
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July 27, 2023Help with PDF.js performance
Here is a simple example for pdfjs+react at https://github.com/yurydelendik/pdfjs-react . Looks like the react "pros" are not trying to be involved in pdfjs (judging by e.g. https://github.com/erikras/react-pdfjs/issues/1 responses), so it will be hard to find any ready-to-use react components on the market. P.S. see also https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#allthepages More on reddit.com
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GitHub
github.com › mikecousins › react-pdf-js
GitHub - mikecousins/react-pdf-js: A React component to wrap PDF.js
A React component to wrap PDF.js. Contribute to mikecousins/react-pdf-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nutrient
nutrient.io › blog › sdk › how to build a reactjs viewer with pdfjs
Build a React PDF viewer with PDF.js and Next.js: Step-by-step tutorial
July 16, 2025 - To get started with rendering PDFs using PDF.js in a React application, you first need to set up our development environment. You’ll use Next.js, a popular React framework, to create the project structure. Run the following command to scaffold a new Next.js project inside a folder named pdfjs-d...
Reddit
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r/reactjs on Reddit: A deep dive into PDF.js layers and how to render truly interactive PDFs in React.
July 9, 2025 -
Hey r/reactjs,
I wanted to share an article I just wrote about a topic that can be surprisingly tricky: rendering PDFs in React.
It's easy enough to get a static image of a PDF page onto a <canvas>, but if you've ever tried to make the text selectable or have links that actually work, you know the real challenge begins there.
I ran into this and did a deep dive into how PDF.js actually works. It turns out the magic is in its layer system. My article breaks down the three key layers:
The Canvas Layer: The base visual representation of the PDF.
The Text Layer: A transparent layer of HTML elements positioned perfectly over the canvas, making the text selectable and searchable.
The Annotation Layer: Another transparent layer that handles things like clickable links within the PDF.
The post walks through what each layer does and then provides a step-by-step guide on how to build a React component that stacks these layers correctly to create a fully interactive and accessible PDF viewer.
Hope this is useful for anyone who's had to wrestle with PDFs in their projects! I'll be hanging around in the comments to answer any questions.
Article Link: Understanding PDF.js Layers and How to Use Them in ReactJS
Stack Overflow
stackoverflow.com › questions › 73919619 › how-to-use-pdf-js-with-react
reactjs - How to use PDF.JS with React? - Stack Overflow
import * as PDFJS from "pdfjs-dist/build/pdf"; import * as pdfjsWorker from "pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.worker.entry"; window.PDFJS = PDFJS; export default function PDFViewer({ pdfFile }) { PDFJS.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = pdfjsWorker; const getPDFDoc = useCallback(async () => { const doc = await PDFJS.getDocument(pdfFile); doc.promise.then( (loadedPdf) => { setPdfRef(loadedPdf); }, function (reason) { console.error(reason); } ); }, []); useEffect(() => { getPDFDoc(); }, [getPDFDoc]); I doesn't seem to work at all. I have a custom config with webpack, typescript and SWC-loader. I have read all the related stackoverflow threads. How to properly parse a PDF with PDF.js in React?
CodeSandbox
codesandbox.io › examples › package › react-pdf-js
react-pdf-js examples - CodeSandbox
AboutSimple React component to wrap up PDF.js.
Mozilla
mozilla.github.io › pdf.js
PDF.js - Home
A general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.
React PDF Viewer
react-pdf-viewer.dev › docs › basic-usage
Basic usage - React PDF Viewer
pdfjs uses a web worker to process the most tasks which take time such as parsing and rendering a PDF document.
PDF.js Express
pdfjs.express › documentation › get-started › react
Integrate React & JavaScript PDF Viewer | PDF.js Express SDK
This guide will help you integrate a free trial of PDF.js Express into a React application on the browser.
React-pdf
react-pdf.org
React-pdf
React renderer for creating PDF files on the browser and server
Reddit
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r/react on Reddit: How to Use Mozilla PDF.js with React.js for Client-Side Rendering & Basic Tools?
July 27, 2023 -
Hey everyone,
I hope you're all doing well! 🖐️
I'm currently working on a React.js project that involves rendering PDFs on the client side, and I stumbled upon Mozilla's PDF.js library. While it seems promising, I'm facing some challenges when it comes to integrating it into my project and adding some basic tools like annotations and highlighting.However, I've been struggling to find comprehensive documentation on how to integrate PDF.js with React.js effectively.
Has anyone here successfully used PDF.js with React.js before? I'd really appreciate some guidance on the best practices for integration and any tips or resources to add basic tools for annotations and highlighting.
Feel free to share your experiences, code snippets, or any helpful tutorials that you've come across. Your insights will be of great help to a fellow developer.
Thank you all in advance! 😊🙏
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I used PDF.js during a long time If it's only to display a PDF you can use the native embed HTML tag which allow you to embed any content such as PDF or media. The native pdf viewer of your browser will be used and that's the best way to have a fast & powerfull pdfviewer in your app. If you need some overrides, then PDF.js is good. But not so. You will facing to struggling issues and the documentation is not so clear... If your use case is simple, it's ok but if you need more customization, I suggest you to render a PDF as images server-side and display one image per page in your app.
npm
npmjs.com › package › react-pdf-js
react-pdf-js - npm
June 19, 2019 - Simple React component to wrap up PDF.js. The easiest way to render PDFs in your React app.. Latest version: 5.1.0, last published: 6 years ago. Start using react-pdf-js in your project by running `npm i react-pdf-js`. There are 31 other projects ...
» npm install react-pdf-js
Published Jun 19, 2019
Version 5.1.0
Author mikecousins
Repository https://github.com/mikecousins/react-pdf-js
React PDF
blog.react-pdf.dev › understanding-pdfjs-layers-and-how-to-use-them-in-reactjs
Using PDF.js Layers in React.js Effortlessly
July 17, 2025 - Use PDF.js layers in React.js for improved PDF viewing with text selection, annotations, and structure capabilities
CodeSandbox
codesandbox.io › examples › package › pdfjs-dist
pdfjs-dist examples - CodeSandbox
react-pdf-viewer-vite · pdfjs-dist-vue · react-doc-viewerDocument viewer for react. Renders online/local documents. @react-pdf-viewer/examples · flexcomAplicacion para la comunicacion interna. pdf-viewer (forked) lex961Find more examples or templates · AboutGeneric build of Mozilla's PDF.js library.6,183,977Weekly Downloads ·
DhiWise
dhiwise.com › post › ultimate-guide-to-using-pdfjs-react-in-your-react-application
Steps To Seamlessly Integrate Pdfjs-react Into Your React App
July 31, 2024 - This provides a solid foundation to start working with PDFs in your React app. To begin, you'll need to install the pdfjs-react library.
Apryse
apryse.com › blog › building-react-pdf-viewer-with-pdfjs
How to Build a React PDF Viewer with PDF.js
October 17, 2018 - In this tutorial, we show you how to create a React PDF viewer using PDF.js that you can use in your projects to open a PDF file and display its pages.
npm
npmjs.com › package › pdfjs-dist
pdfjs-dist - npm
2 weeks ago - Generic build of Mozilla's PDF.js library.. Latest version: 5.4.449, last published: 12 days ago. Start using pdfjs-dist in your project by running `npm i pdfjs-dist`. There are 2279 other projects in the npm registry using pdfjs-dist.
» npm install pdfjs-dist
Published Nov 29, 2025
Version 5.4.449
Repository https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
Homepage https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
React PDF Viewer
react-pdf-viewer.dev › docs › getting-started
Getting started - React PDF Viewer
React PDF Viewer uses the APIs provided by the popular pdfjs library.
jsDelivr
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