Text Search and Selection

ComPDFKit for Web offers developers an API for programmatic full-text search, as well as UI for searching and highlighting relevant matches. You can use the method below to search for content in PDFs with ComPDFKit for Web.

docViewer.search(value);

Name	Required	Type	Description
value	yes	string	The Searched Content

If you only need to get the position of the search term, you can obtain it through the following API.

docViewer.searchInPage(value, pageNumber);

The API will return an array of search results, each containing the page number, the position of the search term, and the content of the search term.

[{
  "pageNum": 1,
  "quads": [{
    "left": 154.57814025878906,
    "top": 211.6978759765625,
    "right": 184.56173706054688,
    "bottom": 229.4798583984375
  }],
  "content": " a sample PDF document that showc",
  "pageSearchIndex": 0,
  "searchValue": "PDF"
}]