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Disabling flattened annotations

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PDF.js Express Viewer is a free viewer with limited capabilities compared to PDF.js Express Plus

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PDF.js Express Plus is a commercial PDF SDK for viewing, annotating, signing, form filling and more

By default, PDF.js renders any existing annotations in your documents as a flattened bitmap. These flattened annotations are not selectable and not deletable. This can cause issues when importing your own annotations, as it can cause duplicate (rendering the flattened version and the imported version).

To disable the rendering of flattened annotations, you can use the disableFlattenedAnnotations option.

Note: This is very useful in conjunction with the extract API.

Example

import WebViewer from '@pdftron/pdfjs-express'

WebViewer({
  path: 'path/to/files',
  disableFlattenedAnnotations: true
}).then(instance => {
  instance.docViewer.on('documentLoaded', () => {
    // perform annotation actions
  })
})