pdfkit

To display and render a PDF in Swift, you can use the PDFKit framework to load a document into a PDFView, enabling built-in support for zooming, scrolling, and text selection within your iOS application.

Yes, you can extract text from a PDF using PDFKit in Swift, which supports searching and selecting text directly within PDF documents to retrieve string content for further processing.

To add PDF annotations in Swift, PDFKit provides tools to create and manage highlights, notes, and signatures, allowing users to annotate documents directly within the app interface.

PDFKit supports document manipulation on iOS, allowing you to load, save, and modify PDF documents, including managing pages and filling forms within your Swift application environment.

PDFKit requires iOS 11 or later to integrate PDF rendering, manipulation, and annotation features into your Swift app. You must import the framework to access its document handling functionalities.

The best way to integrate a PDF viewer with annotation features in Swift is using PDFKit, which natively handles document loading, display, and annotation management for iOS applications.