JavaScript PDF search library

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

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