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Overview

The Blazor PDF Viewer component is used to display PDFs from byte arrays, streams, or file paths. In addition to being able to print PDFs, PDF Viewer supports reviewing PDFs with annotation tools. Thumbnails, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and tables of content provide easy navigation within and outside PDF files. Form-filling support allows filling and printing with AcroForms. The Blazor PDF Viewer component is used to display PDFs from byte arrays, streams, or file paths. In addition to supporting printing, PDF Viewer allows users to review PDFs with annotation tools. Thumbnails, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and tables of contents provide easy navigation within and outside PDF files. Form-filling support allows filling and printing with AcroForms.

Blazor PDF Viewer overview.


Why choose Syncfusion Essential Studio® Blazor PDF Viewer?

A high performance Blazor PDF Viewer.

High performance

Thousands of PDF pages can be loaded instantly. On-demand loading and virtualization support helps reduce the initial loading time for larger PDF files.

Blazor PDF Viewer annotations.

Rich annotating tools

The PDF Viewer offers various annotations including text markup, shape, stamp, sticky note, measurement, free-text, and ink.

Blazor PDF Viewer interaction modes.

Easy to interact

Blazor PDF Viewer offers selection and panning interaction modes in your loaded PDF documents, making interaction easier.

Blazor PDF Viewer comment panel.

Flexible comment panel

The comment panel is used to add comments as annotations, replies to comments, and statuses to the PDF file.

Blazor PDF Viewer handwritten signatures.

Add handwritten signatures

You can add a handwritten signature to your PDF files, and customize them by resizing, moving, deleting, and saving them. They enhance the digital process.

Blazor PDF Viewer responsiveness.

Adapts to any resolution

The Blazor PDF Viewer is designed to be responsive with an optimized design for desktops, touchscreens, and smart phones. It works well on all mobile phones that use iOS, Android, or Windows OS.

Blazor PDF Viewer themes.

Attractive, customizable themes

Cutting-edge design with several built-in themes, such as Fluent, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material, and Fabric. Utilize the online Theme Studio tool to customize themes easily.

Blazor PDF Viewer globalization.

Globalization and localization

Enables users from different locales to use the component by formatting the text content to suit their preferences.


Blazor PDF Viewer Code Example

Easily get started with the Blazor PDF Viewer using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also, explore our Blazor PDF Viewer Example that shows you how to render the PDF Viewer component in Blazor.

<SfPdfViewer2 DocumentPath="@DocumentPath"
    Height="100%"
    Width="100%">
</SfPdfViewer2>

@code{
private string DocumentPath { get; set; } = "https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/pdf/pdf-succinctly.pdf";
}

Open PDF file

Open and display both normal PDF files and those protected with AES and RC4 encryption algorithms (password protected). Open PDF files from stream, file paths, and as byte arrays.

Open PDF file using Blazor PDF Viewer.


Review or annotate PDF files

Review PDF files using a rich set of annotating tools in the Blazor PDF Viewer.

Highlight text using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Highlight text

Users can highlight important text in Blazor PDF files and customize the color of the highlighted text.

Underline text using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Underline text

Underline important text in PDF files. You can customize the color of the underline.

Strikethrough text using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Strikethrough

Strikethrough unimportant text in PDF files. You can customize the color of the strikethrough.

Blazor PDF Viewer shape annotations.

Shape annotations

Use drawing tools to add rectangles, circles, ellipses, lines, arrows, and polygons to a PDF file. The shapes can also be moved, resized, and customized.

Blazor PDF Viewer calibrate - measuring tools.

Calibrate - Measuring tools

Measure the distance, area, radius, volume, and perimeter of the objects using measurement tools.

Blazor PDF Viewer stamp annotation.

Stamp a document

Add stamps to a PDF file like applying rubber stamps to a paper document from the list of built-in stamps or create your own stamps.

Blazor PDF Viewer free text annotation.

Free-text annotation

Include free text in PDF files. Users can move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of free text.

Blazor PDF Viewer sticky notes and comments.

Sticky notes and comments

Add sticky notes and comments anywhere in a PDF file. They can also be moved and removed.


Blazor PDF Viewer handwritten signature.

Handwritten signature

Add handwritten signatures to PDF files. The signature can be resized, moved, removed, saved, and customized.


PDF form filling

Fill, edit, flatten, and save AcroForms fields in PDF files. The form fields displayed in the PDF Viewer are: 1. Text box 2. Password box 3. Combo box 4. Check box 5. Radio button 6. Signature field 7. List box

Blazor PDF Viewer form filling.


Import and export annotations in Blazor PDF Viewer.

Import and export annotations

Annotations in a PDF file can be exported as JSON and stored in the database. You can also import annotation JSON data to a PDF file.


Responsive rendering

The Blazor PDF Viewer is engineered to be responsive and to withstand changes in the size of the parent element.

Blazor PDF Viewer responsive rendering.


Blazor PDF Viewer printing PDF.

Printing PDF

The Blazor PDF Viewer supports printing the loaded PDF document along with adding and modifying annotation and signature details.


Built-in toolbar

The PDF Viewer features a robust integrated toolbar designed to perform essential tasks like page navigation, text searching, and various annotation actions. This toolbar can be tailored to suit users’ preferences by incorporating new items, toggling the visibility of existing ones, and rearranging their placement. Blazor PDF Viewer APIs can also be used to customize the toolbar.

Blazor PDF Viewer built-in toolbar.


Customize toolbar using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Toolbar customization

Create a custom toolbar that includes any of the options available in the built-in toolbar.


The Blazor PDF Viewer component supports different types of internal and external navigations.

Bookmark navigation using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Bookmark navigation

Bookmarks saved in PDF files are loaded and made ready for easy navigation.

Thumbnail navigation using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Thumbnail navigation

Thumbnails are miniature representations of the actual pages in PDF files. This feature displays thumbnails of the pages and allows easy navigation.

Hyperlink navigation using Blazor PDF Viewer.

The hyperlink navigation feature enables navigation to the URLs in a PDF file.

Blazor PDF Viewer table of content navigation.

Table of contents navigation

Navigate to the different parts of a PDF file that are listed in the table of contents.


Zooming and panning

Zoom in and out allows users to view a page closer and view a larger part of the page, respectively. Additionally, users can navigate by panning from one region of the PDF Viewer page to another.

Zooming and panning using Blazor PDF Viewer.


Select and copy text using Blazor PDF Viewer.

Select and copy text

Allows users to select and copy text from PDF files. This is helpful for copying and sharing text content.


Search text

Locate all occurrences of a given text and navigate to them easily.

Search text using Blazor PDF Viewer.


Accessibility

Keyboard navigation in Blazor PDF Viewer.

Keyboard navigation

The Blazor PDF Viewer component ensures that every tool is accessible using the keyboard. Major operations like open file, page navigation, zoom ratio, add comments, show or hide annotation and form designer toolbars, print, and download can be done without any mouse interaction. This helps in creating highly accessible applications.

Screen reader in Blazor PDF Viewer.

Screen reader

The Blazor PDF Viewer has complete WAI-ARIA accessibility support. The PDF Viewer UI includes high-contrast visual elements that help visually impaired people to have the best viewing experience. Also, valid UI descriptions are easily accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers.

RTL in Blazor PDF Viewer.

Right to left (RTL)

Right-to-left rendering allows displaying the text and layout of the PDF Viewer from right to left. This improves the user experience and accessibility for RTL languages.






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Other supported frameworks

PDF Viewer is also available in React, Angular, JavaScript, Vue, ASP.NET Core, and ASP.NET MVC frameworks that are built from their own TypeScript libraries. Check out the different PDF Viewer platforms from the links below,

Supported browsers

The Blazor PDF Viewer works well with all modern web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera.

Supported browsers in Blazor PDF Viewer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Syncfusion Blazor PDF Viewer supports the following features:

  • Accurate and reliable PDF rendering.
  • Easy navigation and interactions.
  • Review PDF files with annotating tools such as text markup, shape, measure, free-text, stamp, and sticky notes.
  • Supports filling and editing of AcroForms.
  • One of the best Blazor PDF Viewers in the market that offers a feature-rich UI to interact with the software.
  • Simple configuration and API.
  • Supports all modern browsers.
  • Mobile-touch friendly and responsive.
  • Extensive demos, documentation and videos to learn quickly and get started with Blazor PDF Viewer.

We do not sell the Blazor PDF Viewer separately. It is only available for purchase as part of the Syncfusion team license. This contains over 1,800 components and frameworks, including the Blazor PDF Viewer. The price of the team license starts at $395 per month for 5 developers, and includes support and updates until the subscription expires. In addition, we might offer discounts based on currently active promotions. Please contact our product specialists today to see if you qualify for any additional discounts.

You can find our Blazor PDF Viewer demo, which demonstrates how to render and configure the PDF Viewer.

No, our 1,800+ components and frameworks for web, mobile, and desktop, including our Blazor PDF Viewer, are not sold individually. They are only available as part of a team license. However, we have competitively priced the product, so it only costs a little bit more than what some other vendors charge for their PDF Viewer component alone. We have also found that, in our experience, our customers usually start off using one of our products and then expand to several products quickly, so we felt it was best to offer all 1,800+ components and frameworks for a subscription fee that starts at $395 per month for a team of 5 developers. Additionally, we might be able to offer discounts based on currently active promotions. Please contact our product specialists today to see if you qualify for any additional discounts.

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.

A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.

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Recent activities in Blazor PDF Viewer tutorials and blogs

The Blazor PDF Viewer tutorial videos and blog posts will guide you in building your first app with Blazor components. They provide problem-solving strategies, describe features and functionalities, announce new feature releases, explain best practices, and showcase example scenarios. Explore our latest posts on our blog and tutorial video channels for Blazor PDF Viewer updates.

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