PDF Viewer

Overview

This is a base code for a PDF viewer that can be extended to integrate AI capabilities.

The PDF viewer supports:

• Scrolling and on-demand rendering
• Text layer rendering and text selection
• Drag-and-drop area selection and snapshot (holding CTRL and use mouse)

Major dependencies:

• "react": "^18.2.0",
• "typescript": "^5.2.2",
• "electron": "^31.3.0",
• "pdfjs-dist": "^4.10.38",
• "webpack": "^5.88.2",
• "electron-builder": "^24.13.3",

Setting up

After cloning, run the following command to start (you can remove ELERON_MIRROR part if you want):

$ ELERON_MIRROR="https://cdn.npmmirror.com/binaries/electron/" npm install

To package, execute

$ ELERON_MIRROR="https://cdn.npmmirror.com/binaries/electron/" npm run package

To launch the app, execute

$ chmod +x release/build/ElectronReact-4.6.0.AppImage && ./release/build/ElectronReact-4.6.0.AppImage --no-sandbox

where ElectronReact-4.6.0.AppImage is the building target that I am too lazy to change its name.

If you have installed the VSCode extension better-status-bar , you will see the two buttons in the status bar to compile and run the app.