Creating a UI panel to fetch and display data in Acrobat Pro

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September 18, 2025
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Hi, I wanted to create a UI panel in acrobat Pro.
I want it to appear when my plugin is loaded and I want to host a react app within the panel. User should be able to select contents within the panel and the panel should be able to interact with the pdf document. How can I go about creating such a thing using acrobat SDK and are there any samples avaialable which I can refer?

Thom Parker

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Yes, this is possible. Plug-ins are written in C++, but are restricted by the Acrobat environment. However, there is no reason a web brower with sufficient JavaScript support couldn't be displayed by the plug-in. Plug-ins in Windows can also use ActiveX, which could be used for this purpose.

There are no samples of this type of plug-in, so you need to know what you are doing.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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adhirath_7243Author

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How should I go about it then, any suggestion where I could start?

Thom Parker

Community Expert

Well, say that you wanted to create a stand alone application that displayed a React application in a browser, do you have an idea of how you'd do it? I'd start there.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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