
React PDF Viewer
a PDF viewer made for React
React PDF Viewer launched on November 18, 2019 with 5 votes, #1,157 of 3,227 launches that month.
What it does
React PDF Viewer is a powerful React component to view PDF document. * Written in TypeScript, powered by React Hooks * Provides a lot of features * Supports layout and toolbar customization * Supports localization * Theming and dark mode are coming soon
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