Example using a textLayer

I have the basic pdf.js API working to render onto the canvas but I can’t get it to work with the textLayer. The only examples I can find are very old and no longer work.

The typescript definition shows that I have to pass:

interface PDFRenderTextLayer {
    beginLayout(): void;
    endLayout(): void;
    appendText(): void;
}

… but the text layer code from the viewer doesn’t actually seem to use this pattern.

There needs to be more complete examples as the ones we have now are very basic.

I appreciate that there’s an amazing viewer app but it requires reverse engineering to actually determine how to do this. I can submit a PR for more examples if someone points me in the right direction.

[TomaIvanovTomov]

These example are not even close to udnerstandable of what we have to do enable search on page…

[burtonator]

@zagoa how did you get those imports to work from pdfjs?

I’m using @types/pdfjs-dist for my types… is there a better typescript definition set I should use.?