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Find text anywhere in a PDF

Your users search the document and step through the matches. Your code gets every match with its page and position.

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PDF text search, for users and for code.

  • Search in the editor

    Type a word and step to the previous or next match.

  • Search from code

    Get every match with its page and the rectangles it covers.

  • Case-sensitive or not

    Match exactly, or ignore case.

  • Read text in order

    Read a page’s text blocks in reading order for your own indexing.

From your code.

Lists every match with its page and position.

See the API reference 
const doc = await PDFDocumentEditor.open(bytes);

for (const match of doc.search('invoice')) {
  console.log(match.page, match.rects);   // where it is on the page
}

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Search questions.

Yes. Search returns every match with its page and the rectangles it covers, case-sensitive or not.

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