PDF Reader

Android support 🚀

Read a PDF just with JS (no native libs needed)

Requirements

- 👉Install react-native-webview on your own!
- 👉Install expo-file-system on your own!
- 👉Install expo-constants on your own!
- Use it into Expo app (from expo client, Standalone app or ExpoKit app).
- Only React-Native 0.59-0.60+ support, Expo SDK 33-36+

PRs are welcome...

Example

``tsx
import * as React from 'react'
import { View } from 'react-native'
import PDFReader from 'rn-pdf-reader-js'

export default class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
source={{
uri: 'http://gahp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sample.pdf',
}}
/>
)
}
}
`

See more detailed example into App.tsx file.

Props

`tsx
interface Source {
uri?: string // can be local or served on the web (ie. start with https:// or file://)
base64?: string // should start with data:application/pdf;base64,. A base64 encoded pdf file tends to start with JVBERi0xL so your complete string should look something like this: data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xL...
headers?: { [key: string]: string }
}

interface Props {
source: Source
style?: View['props']['style'] // style props to override default container style
webviewStyle?: WebView['props']['style'] // style props to override default WebView style
webviewProps?: WebView['props']
noLoader?: boolean
useGoogleReader?: boolean // If you are not worried about confidentiality
withScroll?: boolean // Can cause performance issue
withPinchZoom?: boolean
customStyle?: {
readerContainer?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerDocument?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerNumbers?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerNumbersContent?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerZoomContainer?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerZoomContainerButton?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerNavigate?: CSS.Properties
readerContainerNavigateArrow?: CSS.Properties
}
onLoad?(): void // callback that runs after WebView is loaded
onLoadEnd?(): void // callback that runs after WebView is loaded
onError?(): void // callback that runs when WebView is on error
}
``

Possibilities

| Render type | Platform | Source prop |
| ------------------- | ------------ | ------------- |
| Custom PDF reader | Android | uri or base64 |
| Direct from WebView | iOS | uri or base64 |
| Google PDF Reader | Android, iOS | uri |

What rn-pdf-reader-js use?

- react-pdf (pdf.js)
- WebView
- Base64

FAQ

- Why the component doesn't render PDF?

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