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react-pdf-viewer / react-pdf-viewer

A React component to view a PDF document
https://react-pdf-viewer.dev
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Don't use this package, and a good mostly FREE alternative #1858

Open Titorat opened 1 month ago

Titorat commented 1 month ago

For anyone who has tried using this package, it's clear that it's not maintainable, full of vulnerabilities, and the author has abandoned it.

A great alternative I’ve found is Syncfusion (https://www.syncfusion.com/). They offer a PDF Viewer, including a React version. You can get a FREE community license if your company makes less than $1M a year and has 5 or fewer developers or 10 or fewer employees, which I think would suit a lot of people.

Their support is fantastic. I'm not affiliated with them btw, but after struggling with this package, I'm much happier using a more reliable option. While Syncfusions's documentation could be improved, I can usually solve most issues with a bit of research and ChatGPT.

React Component (https://ej2.syncfusion.com/react/documentation/pdfviewer/getting-started)

jkgenser commented 1 month ago

Also, try this one:

https://github.com/jkgenser/react-pdf-headless

It's MIT license completely free and open source. I re-wrote it from scratch on top of https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf and https://tanstack.com/virtual/latest in order to replace my own user of this project.

My use case involves lazily rendering large PDFs, scrubbing to particular pages or offsets within a page, showing bounding boxes or highlights overlaid on the pages and more!

If your use case involves more, please drop me a line and we can work together to getting that functionality added in!

xiaohanyu commented 1 month ago

This package is not that bad, I used it for more than a year in my product: https://ppresume.com/gallery, overall it did its job, though with some bugs.

However, the maintainence is a problem for sure, if the author could be more active, it would be good.