Need for a simple MVC 4.0 project that demonstrates the PDFViewer capabilities

[Ionel]

Hi,

I was following different tutorials to build the most basic ASP.NET MVC 4.0 project with VS 2013, to display a PDF in the PDFViewer, but with no success.

It seems that the documentation is not up to date.

Can anybody from Syncfusion to send me a very simple project that uses a PDFViewer and I can demo to a client?

If everything works well, we plan to buy the license.

Thank you,

Ionel.

[Akshaya Arivoli]

Hi Ionel, 

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support. 

We have created the ASP.NET MVC sample with Visual Studio 2013 to display a PDF in PDF Viewer control and share the same in the following location. 

http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/136889/ze/Sample1803935862  

We regret for the inconvenience, in the UG document we have mentioned to place the document in App_Data folder but in the code snippet we have loaded the PDF document from Data folder. We will update the UG documentation as soon as possible. Please try the above sample and let us know if you need any other assistance. 

Regards, 

Akshaya 

[Ionel]

Hi Akshaya,
Thank you for your example. It was exactly what I wanted.

While testing one of our PDF file, I noticed that the search does not work very well. It will not highlight the found matches exactly. Are you aware of this issue?

Also, does Syncfusion have an API that will search within a PDF? We are looking to extend our website search to look into the PDF files as well.

Thank you!
Ionel.

[Sabari Anand Senthamarai Kannan]

Hi lonel, 

Thank you for your update. 

Please find the details for your queries in the following table. 

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While testing one of our PDF file, I noticed that the search does not work very well. It will not highlight the found matches exactly. Are you aware of this issue? 

We are not able to reproduce the reported issue. We suspect that the issue may be specified to the PDF document. Can you please provide us the PDF document in which you faced the reported issue? So that it will be helpful for us to analyze further and assist you better. 

does Syncfusion have an API that will search within a PDF? We are looking to extend our website search to look into the PDF files as well. 

Yes, PDF viewer have APIs for searching the text within the PDF document. Please find the details of the APIs below. 

API name	Type	Description	Parameter	Parameter Type	Return Type
searchText	method	Search the target text in the PDF documents.	targetText	string	void
searchPrevious	method	Search the previous occurrences of the target text	-	-	void
matchCase	method	Search the target text with match cases.	enableMatchCase	boolean	void
cancelSearchText	method	Clear all occurrences of target text.	-	-	void
searchNext	method	Search the next occurrences of the target text	-	-	void

However, we have created a sample to demonstrate the same and it can be downloaded from the following link. 

http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/136889/ze/Sample-92027034 

 

Please let us know if you need any further assistance. 

Regards, 

Sabari Anand 

[Ionel]

Please find attached the PDF.
Please look at how on pages 4-7, there are places where duplicate characters (f for example), and also how there are words with two characters (Twitter is an example) where one letter gets dropped (a t usually)

Thank you!

Attachment: Test_1b9c96ba.zip

[Akshaya Arivoli]

Hi Ionel, 

Thank you for your update. 

We can reproduce the issues “Search instances are not highlighted properly for the provided PDF document” and “Some characters are not rendered in PDF Viewer control”. The fix for these issues will be included in our Volume 1 SP2 release which is expected to roll out in the end of April 2018.  

Please let us know if you need any other assistance on this. 

Regards, 

Akshaya