react-pdf

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to render PDF documents directly within React applications using the react-pdf library. It allows for programmatic access to PDF pages, text extraction, and rendering without requiring external viewers or plugins.

When to use it

• Displaying legal contracts or invoices securely inside a web dashboard.
• Building document review tools where users can highlight specific sections of a PDF.
• Creating educational platforms that render textbooks or manuals interactively.
• Integrating scanned document previews into internal enterprise portals.

Key capabilities

• Renders PDF files as React components with full page control.
• Supports text extraction and layering for accessibility features.
• Allows custom styling of rendered pages to match application themes.
• Provides hooks for navigating between pages programmatically.

Example prompts

• "Render the first three pages of this uploaded contract in a responsive grid."
• "Extract all headings from the attached PDF and display them as a clickable table of contents."
• "Create a side-by-side view comparing two different versions of the same document."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure PDF files are preprocessed or optimized for web delivery to improve rendering performance. Large documents may require pagination logic to avoid overwhelming the browser with excessive DOM elements.