pdf-lib VS react-pdf

I'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#:~:text=a%20single%20document.-,Fill...

I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related service https://www.jotform.com/, and I also considered porting some server-side libraries to WASM. One day I'll collect all the libraries and findings in a blog post.

Are you looking to programmatically fill any PDF form by detecting the fields? Or are you filling one known PDF template?

Thanks! For PDF form filling, I use the APIs that pdf-lib [0] exposes. That includes text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and options lists. Give it a try and let me know if you find a type of form field that's missing.

[0] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib

I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/

PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.

Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib

I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code.

How one can use a library such as PDF-Lib (npm, website) that:

I built my side-project https://pdfvise.com/ using https://pdf-lib.js.org/ for pdf manipulations.

23.react-pdf

23. react-pdf

There are actually two npm packages called "react-pdf": one is for displaying PDFs and one is for generating PDFs. Today we are focusing on the one to generate PDFs: https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf.

Not sure if that would work for youck, I used react-pdf to format the size and text required within the document before printing.

I am trying to load a PDF from my src/assets folder, following the example from here I have the following code:

Then I suddenly had an idea. Im sure React/client side has a JS library! And indeed, both react-pdf and a few satellite libraries had exactly what I needed.

Hmm, that's tricky. Maybe mocking the PDF return can help here: https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf/issues/564?

My project stick with IE, so I using [email protected], I find out the example for doing this codesandbox but it was been limited, by using 5.1 and upper.

I don't know.

For people who want a React wrappers around pdf.js, there are open source alternatives such as react-pdf: https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf