A mobile-friendly PDF Reader in browser for React

by React

React-read-pdf

a mobile-friendly PDF Reader in browser for React 16.x.

Features

  • Simple: It is very easy to use
  • Mobile-friendly: Support all mobile terminal devices including mobile,pad and others

Browser Support

  • IE 10+
  • Firefox 3.6+
  • Chrome 6+
  • Safari 6+
  • Opera 11.5+
  • iOS Safari 6.1+
  • Android Browser 3+

Quick Start

1. Import react-read-pdf into your react.js project.

(You should import react firt,The version of react must be more than 16.x)

Using build tools:

npm install --save react-read-pdf

Using PDFReader in PC:

import React from 'react';
import { PDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';

Using MobilePDFReader in mobile terminal devices:

import React from 'react';
import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';

2. Now you have it. The simplest usage:

import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf';
export default class Test extends Component{
  render(){
    return <div style={{overflow:'scroll',height:600}}>
            <MobilePDFReader url="http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"/>
           </div>
  }
}

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Test from './test'
ReactDOM.render(<Test />, document.getElementById('root'));

It supports all mobile terminal devices including mobile,pad and others,the next image is a lively example in iphoneX

Documentation

react-read-pdf mainly consists of two different components. PDFReader and MobilePDFReader.

? PDFReader

import { PDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf'

...
<PDFReader url={"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"} ...>

Props in PDFReader Component

Props name Type Description
url string | object if url is a string, it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files. if url is a object, you can see this url object type for details
data string binary-like data of PDF.For example,in javascript, you can use the method "atob" to convert base64 encoded PDF to binary-like data.
page number default value is 1 ,decides that which page to show in PDF file.
scale number decides the viewport in render
width number decides the width of viewport
showAllPage boolean default value is false , if it is true , it will render all pages of the pdf file. if it is false ,it will only show the "currentPage" according to the page props's value.
onDocumentComplete function after load the PDF file, in this function ,you can get some informations of the PDF file you can see this function type for details

url
the url property of PDFReader

Type:

  • string : it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files
  • object :

Properties:

Property Name type Description
url string it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files
withCredentials boolean is allow requests to carry cookie or not

onDocumentComplete
the onDocumentComplete property of PDFReader

Type:

  • function(totalPage)

onDocumentComplete's type is a function, the fisrt default parameter is totalPage of the PDF file

Notes

The url of props can be string or object.

The following two ways are the same.

One is :

 <MobilePDFReader url="http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"/>

the other is :

 <MobilePDFReader url={url:"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"}/>

? MobilePDFReader

import { MobilePDFReader } from 'react-read-pdf'

...
<MobilePDFReader url={"http://localhost:3000/test.pdf"} ...>

Props in MobilePDFReader Component

Props name Type Description
url string | object it represents absolute address or relative address of PDF files.
page number default value is 1 ,decides that which page to show in PDF file.
scale 'auto' | number defaut value is 'auto', react-react-pdf use pdfjs-viewer,so if the scale is 'auto' , it can Adaptive mobile device .This property decides the viewport in render
minScale number defaut value is 0.25, decides the minimum value of scale
maxScale number defaut value is 10, decides the max value of scale
isShowHeader boolean defaut value is true, in order to show lively example.'react-react-pdf' added default style to special header, you can remove this style ,if you change this value to false
isShowFooter boolean defaut value is true, in order to show lively example.'react-react-pdf' added default style to special footer, you can remove this style ,if you change this value to false
onDocumentComplete function after load the PDF file, in this function ,you can get some informations of the PDF file you can see this function type for details

onDocumentComplete
the onDocumentComplete property of MobilePDFReader

Type:

  • function(totalPage,title,otherObj)

Properties:

Property Name type Description
totalPage number the totalPage of the PDF file
title title the title of the PDF file
otherObj object other coding information of the PDF file

Notes

I strongly recommend you to set initial value of scale is 'auto',the default is 'auto' too

Development

Installation

  1. Clone/download repo
  2. yarn install (or npm install for npm)

Usage

Development

yarn run start-dev

  • Build app continuously (HMR enabled)
  • App served @ http://localhost:8080

Production

yarn run start-prod

  • Build app once (HMR disabled)
  • App served @ http://localhost:3000

All commands

Command Description
yarn run start-dev Build app continuously (HMR enabled) and serve @ http://localhost:8080
yarn run start-prod Build app once (HMR disabled) and serve @ http://localhost:3000
yarn run build Build app to /dist/
yarn run test Run tests
yarn run lint Run Typescript and SASS linter
yarn run lint:ts Run Typescript linter
yarn run lint:sass Run SASS linter
yarn run start (alias of yarn run start-dev)

Note: replace yarn with npm if you use npm.

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