pdfkitlisted
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# PDFKit
Display, navigate, search, annotate, and manipulate PDF documents with
`PDFView`, `PDFDocument`, `PDFPage`, `PDFAnnotation`, and `PDFSelection`.
Targets Swift 6.3 / iOS 26+.
## Contents
- [Setup](#setup)
- [Displaying PDFs](#displaying-pdfs)
- [Loading Documents](#loading-documents)
- [Page Navigation](#page-navigation)
- [Text Search and Selection](#text-search-and-selection)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Thumbnails](#thumbnails)
- [SwiftUI Integration](#swiftui-integration)
- [Common Mistakes](#common-mistakes)
- [Review Checklist](#review-checklist)
- [References](#references)
## Setup
PDFKit requires no entitlements or Info.plist entries.
```swift
import PDFKit
```
**Platform availability:** iOS 11+, iPadOS 11+, Mac Catalyst 13.1+,
macOS 10.4+, tvOS 11+, visionOS 1.0+.
## Displaying PDFs
`PDFView` is a `UIView` subclass that renders PDF content, handles zoom,
scroll, text selection, and page navigation out of the box.
```swift
import PDFKit
import UIKit
class PDFViewController: UIViewController {
let pdfView = PDFView()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
pdfView.frame = view.bounds
pdfView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
view.addSubview(pdfView)
pdfView.autoScales = true
pdfView.displayMode = .singlePageContinuous
pdfView.displayDirection = .vertical
if let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "sample", withExtension: "pdf") {
pdf