PDF.js - Using search function on embedded PDF

Question

I embedded a PDF using PDF.js with the iframe src=viewer.html?file=... tag. I\'m using PDF.js and its viewer.html as it already provides a search function that

Answer 1

As no one else responded to my question I'm going to answer it myself. I finally got it working by using the viewer.html @ https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/web.

Here is some example code that I wrote to make it work. Hope it will help someone else in the future.

PDFView.open(pdf_url, 0);

// search with PDF.js
function searchPDF(td_text) {
    PDFView.findBar.open();
    $(PDFView.findBar.findField).val(td_text);
    $("#tableDiv").focus();

    var event = document.createEvent('CustomEvent');
    event.initCustomEvent('find', true, true, {
        query: td_text,
        caseSensitive: $("#findMatchCase").prop('checked'),
        highlightAll: $("#findHighlightAll").prop('checked'),
        findPrevious: undefined
    });
    return event;
}