Introducing the Syncfusion AI-Powered Blazor PDF Viewer: Unleashing AI for Smarter PDFs [Webinar Show Notes]
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GrokHandling PDFs inside Blazor applications has always been an essential functionality, but traditional viewers fall short when it comes to automation, intelligence, and security. With the release of the AI-Powered Blazor PDF Viewer, Syncfusion has introduced a smarter way to interact with documents.
In this webinar, Syncfusion Senior Product Manager Shriram Sankaran introduced the PDF Viewer and demonstrated how to:
- Build a Blazor app from scratch by using Visual Studio and .NET 9.
- Integrate the AI-powered PDF Viewer with Azure OpenAI.
- Summarize documents, redact sensitive information, and automate form completion.
If you missed the webinar or would like to watch it again, the recording is available on our YouTube channel and is embedded below:
Webinar agenda and highlights
Common challenges with PDFs
- Sensitive data often must be redacted manually.
- Form filling is tedious and prone to errors.
- It is difficult to extract insights from lengthy or complex documents.
Smarter PDF handling with AI
The AI-powered Blazor PDF Viewer builds upon a robust PDF viewer foundation, one boasting smooth navigation, printing, annotations, and cross-platform support, and layers in AI-driven features:
- AI assistance: Chat with your PDFs to generate summaries, instant answers, and suggested queries.
- Smart redaction: Automatically detect and protect personally identifiable or sensitive data.
- Smart form filling: Extract clipboard content and populate form fields instantly.
- Flexible AI integration: Connect to services like Azure OpenAI or DeepSeek using simple API keys.
Why choose the Syncfusion solution?
- High performance: Load thousands of pages instantly with virtualization.
- Rich annotations: Highlight, underline, add notes, and even signatures.
- Accessibility first: Screen reader support, full keyboard navigation, and right-to-left rendering.
- Cross-platform: Optimized for web, mobile, and desktop environments.
- Extensive resources: Documentation, demos, and live examples available for developers.
Recording timestamps
[00:00] Welcome and introduction
[00:47] Agenda overview
[01:27] Challenges with traditional PDF handling
[03:07] Introducing the AI-powered Blazor PDF Viewer
[04:42] AI features explained (assistance, redaction, form-filling, integration)
[06:50] Mini demo: Summarization, redaction, and smart filling
[11:22] Prerequisites and setup
[12:03] Live demo: Building a Blazor app with the AI-powered PDF Viewer
[28:00] Full AI demo walkthrough
[31:20] Why choose the Syncfusion AI-powered Blazor PDF Viewer
[32:15] Recap and key takeaways
[33:11] Closing remarks
Q&A
Q1: Can you redact PDF documents in bulk?
A: Yes, we can redact PDF documents in bulk by processing them in batches using our .NET PDF Library.
Q2: Is redaction achieved by printing over areas or actually removing the redacted data from the PDF?
A: Redacted areas are completely removed from the PDF document.
Q3: Will the AI-powered PDF Viewer be implemented in WPF and WinForms?
A: We just implemented this component in Blazor, but we have a plan to build the AI-powered PDF Viewer on other platforms as well.
Q4: Can local LLMs with Ollama or Microsoft Foundry Local be integrated too?
A: Yes. Refer to this documentation for more information.
Q5: Do we need an OpenAI API key to use the AI tools?
A: Yes, you need your own API key. However, you do have access to limited AI usage without your own API key in our samples.
Q6: Is it possible to transform a Word document to a smart PDF and then fill out the fields?
A: You should convert the Word document to a PDF first and then load it in the AI-powered PDF Viewer to fill the form. Refer to the following documentation on converting a Word document to PDF.