Getting Started

The ready-made viewer gives you a complete PDF experience with a small integration surface. Pick your stack in the sidebar; this page and every example will stay on that integration.

Installation#

Vanilla JavaScript can load the viewer directly from a CDN. Framework projects install their dedicated adapter with pnpm.

pnpm add @embedpdf/react-pdf-viewer

Add your first viewer#

Give the viewer a PDF URL and a height. The adapter handles the engine, plugins, toolbar, and document lifecycle for you.

import { PDFViewer } from '@embedpdf/react-pdf-viewer';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <PDFViewer
      config={{ src: 'https://snippet.embedpdf.com/ebook.pdf' }}
      style={{ height: '500px' }}
      onReady={(registry) => {
        console.log('PDF viewer ready!', registry);
      }}
    />
  );
}

Where to go next#

• Configure the toolbar and available viewer controls.
• Listen to the ready event when you need access to the plugin registry.
• Switch to the Headless docs when you want to build the entire interface yourself.