JavaScript PDF Search Library

Search across PDF pages and annotations for matching text using JavaScript. PSPDFKit for Web offers developers an API for programmatic full-text search, as well as a customizable UI for searching and highlighting relevant matches.

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PSPDFKit SDKs are deployed in some of the world’s most popular applications, such as those made by Autodesk, Disney, UBS, Dropbox, IBM, and Lufthansa.

Key Capabilities

• Full-text search — Programmatically or by using the UI

• Annotation search — Find specific PDF annotations

• Headless — Programmatically search PDFs without the UI

• Customizable UI — Style the search form to match your look & feel

• Extendable — Add annotation, extraction, redaction, and more

Guides for Search

Text Search
How to customize the text-search implementation or provide your own

Annotation Search
How to search for specific annotations within a PDF document

Built-In Search UI
Learn about the built-in search UI and how to customize it