[Yuruzuu]

Problem

In the PDF.js viewer, Find in PDF did nothing visible until it had read every page. On a 1,800-page PDF with the first match on page 1, the view stayed where it was for about 1.7 s at 4x CPU slowdown before jumping to the match, even though page 1 was the first page read.

Change

The Find loop in apps/web/src/components/files/PdfViewer.tsx read each page's text in order, collected matching pages, and published matches (plus the page heights it had measured) only after the last page.

Now:

• When the scan finds its first match, it publishes that one match along with the heights measured so far, so the jump lands on the right page. The full ordered list and all page heights are still published once, at the end of the scan.
• The status keeps the existing "Searching…" text until the scan finishes, so no count is shown before it is final. No new UI.
• The jump effect now runs when the first match changes, not whenever the match array changes. The final list arriving therefore does not scroll the user back to the first match after they scrolled, paged, or pressed next during the scan.
• The cancellation check moved to after each page's text extraction, so a superseded query or document can never publish a result.

The debounce, the 2,000-page limit, and the 4 MiB text limit are unchanged.

I first tried publishing every match as it was found. That re-rendered the viewer once per match and stalled for more than 30 s on a 1,733-match query at 4x slowdown, so only the first match is published early.

Surfaces: this viewer runs in the Electron desktop app, on iOS/iPadOS browsers, and in web browsers without a built-in PDF viewer (navigator.pdfViewerEnabled false, including headless Chromium). Browsers with a built-in PDF viewer use that instead and are unaffected. Mobile is not affected: iOS uses a WebView and Android a native PDF library, and neither uses this Find loop. No contracts, server, or provider code changes.

One behavior difference: if the 4 MiB text limit is hit after the first match was published, the error shows as before, but that first match stays reachable with "Next matching page". Before this change, nothing was published in that case.

Scope and approval

Approval is outstanding. I searched upstream issues and discussions for PDF Find performance and found nothing matching. This is a performance change to existing behavior, not a bug fix, so the small-bug exception doesn't clearly fit.

Possible textual conflicts: #33569, #31885, #28336 and #30760 edit other parts of PdfViewer.tsx; whichever lands second may need a small rebase. #29802 (curly quotes in PDF Find) only touches pdfLayout.ts. The branch is based on 20c3dd3689 and is one unrelated mobile commit behind main.

Verification

Full app (the headline number): a vp run dev build with its own .t3 state, headless Chromium (navigator.pdfViewerEnabled false). The 1,800-page fixture was opened through Files → manual.pdf, scrolled to page 901, and searched for "needle" (67 matching pages, first on page 1) at 4x CPU slowdown. Upstream's PdfViewer.tsx and this branch's were swapped in alternately, with one warm-up pair discarded. First hit is the time from the input event until page 1 is on screen with a highlighted match. Done is the time until the final "x/67" count. Both include the 250 ms debounce.

Full app, 4x (ms)	Samples	Median
Before, first hit	1818, 2218, 1631, 1680, 1656	1680
After, first hit	587, 548, 444, 517, 536	536 (3.1x)
Before, done	1717, 2039, 1530, 1561, 1560	1561
After, done	1866, 1871, 1553, 1600, 1574	1600

Component runs: the real PdfViewer in Vitest browser mode, same fixture and start page, upstream and branch versions alternated. Two runs of 7 pairs each, medians in ms:

	Before first hit	After first hit	Speedup	Before done	After done
Run 1, 1x	688	280	2.5x	682	686
Run 1, 4x	1943	501	3.9x	1862	2014
Run 2, 1x	766	284	2.7x	758	814
Run 2, 4x	1958	439	4.5x	1902	1804

Total completion is within noise. Across all runs it ranged from −5% to +8%, and the worst case was +8% (run 1, 4x). After the change, page 1 is drawn during the scan instead of after it.

Correctness, checked in the component runs:

• Final ordered list: identical before and after. I walked all 67 matches with "Next matching page" in both versions: pages 1, 28, 55 … 1783.
• Replacement query mid-scan: "needle" replaced by "other". Ends at "1/1733" on page 2, with no stale needle results.
• Document change mid-scan: ends at "1/1" on the new document's only match, page 1800.
• No matches: "0/0", and the view does not move.
• First match on the last page: "1/1" on page 1800.
• Manual navigation during the scan: the page the user moved to is kept after the count settles at "1/67".

vp test run --project browser src/components/files/PdfViewer.browser.test.tsx: 3/3 pass. The new test "jumps to the first hit while still counting and keeps later manual navigation" holds page 4's text until the test releases it. It checks that the viewer jumps to page 2 while "Searching…" is shown, then that a manual move to page 3 survives the final "1/2". It fails on main (no jump while searching). vp run typecheck for apps/web is clean, and vp lint and vp fmt --check on both files are clean.

Recordings: full app, 4x CPU slowdown, typing "needle" from page 901.

Before (main):

full-app-before-main-4x.webm

After (this branch):

full-app-after-branch-4x.webm

Not checked: the Electron shell was not run (it uses the same viewer code); iOS Safari was not run; I did not hit the 4 MiB text limit in a real document.

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[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at e9257dc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — PDF Find jumps to the first matching page before scanning finishes and avoids jumping again when counting completes. The change is confined to PDF search navigation, with existing search limits and cancellation handling retained.

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Walkthrough

PdfViewer now displays the first search match before text scanning finishes. A browser test checks the first-match jump, manual navigation during the scan, and the final match count.

Changes: PDF search behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Incremental search and navigation apps/web/src/components/files/PdfViewer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/files/PdfViewer.browser.test.tsx	PdfViewer publishes the first match and page ratios through that match during text extraction. The browser test uses configurable PDF pages and delayed extraction to verify the early jump, manual page selection, and final match count.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant PdfViewer
  participant PDFPage as PDF.js page
  User->>PdfViewer: Enter search query
  PdfViewer->>PDFPage: getTextContent
  PDFPage-->>PdfViewer: Return page text
  PdfViewer-->>User: Show first match and jump to its page
  User->>PdfViewer: Navigate to another page
  PDFPage-->>PdfViewer: Return remaining scan results
  PdfViewer-->>User: Show final match count and keep selected page

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#25699: Extracts PDF text and search helpers used by PdfViewer, covering the same search pipeline.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e9257

The partial-search behavior is intentional and the error is visible. No identified issue blocks merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the PDF Find first-match improvement and its performance focus.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[maria-rcks]

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head e9257dc3e1e375b2da5a65412d5485640082aaf8 against github/main at d91915db9e on a linux boat vm. each checkout ran vp i and its real background dev server, one server at a time.

i added a real git project through the web app and used codex gpt-6.1-sol to create a searchable 1,800-page operations manual. a second real codex turn on the pr verified its unchanged sha-256: dcfe079813ba379d29cc90f7f08397e1426f4467a95b8ee14e2146608402c129. no replay provider, intercepted requests, or mocked pdf extraction were used.

playwright drove /usr/bin/google-chrome. chrome's normal "download pdfs" preference disabled its built-in viewer, exercising the app's pdf.js fallback. i opened manual.pdf through the file picker, scrolled to page 901, and searched for needle at 4x cpu throttling.

• main stayed on page 901 until scanning finished. the first highlighted hit appeared after 13.6–14.1 seconds in two captures.
• the pr showed the highlighted page 1 hit after 0.91–0.94 seconds while still displaying "searching...". the final count arrived later as 1/67. these are observations for this document and vm, not a general speedup estimate.
• clicking next page during scanning kept page 2 after the count settled.
• all 67 next-match steps followed pages 28, 55, ..., 1783, then wrapped to 1.
• replacing the query mid-scan with finalonly produced 1/1 on page 1800 with no stale results.
• an absent query produced 0/0, disabled next-match, and preserved page 1800. zoom out and fit width also preserved that page.

focused check through blacksmith:

cd apps/web && vp test run --project browser src/components/files/PdfViewer.browser.test.tsx
Test Files  1 passed (1)
Tests       3 passed (3)

before, main remains on page 901 during searching:

after, pr highlights page 1 while searching continues:

Not verified

electron's native shell, safari/ipados, and native ios/android were not run on this linux vm. native mobile uses separate pdf viewers. the 4 mib text limit, 2,000-page rejection, and switching documents during an active scan were not exercised. no source changes or pushes were needed.

[binjamshid]

The change matches the description. The first hit is published early with the page ratios measured so far, so pdfPageScrollTop lands on the right page. Keying the jump effect on firstMatch stops the final list from scrolling the user back. Moving the cancelled check after getTextContent keeps a superseded scan from publishing. The new browser test gates page 4's text and checks both the early jump and that manual navigation is kept. Two small points:

1. Low, apps/web/src/components/files/PdfViewer.tsx ("Next matching page" handler, unchanged lines ~412-418). On main the button was disabled during a scan because matches stayed [] until the end. Now it is enabled with one published match, so pressing it computes (0 + 1) % 1 === 0 and scrolls back to the first hit. That undoes the user's own navigation, which is the behavior this PR protects elsewhere. Consider disabled={!matches.length || finding}, or leave it enabled and accept that it re-shows the first hit.
2. Low, apps/web/src/components/files/PdfViewer.tsx:315. Removing the top-of-loop if (cancelled) return; means a search cancelled while getPage is pending still runs one more getTextContent before it stops. That costs little, but keeping both checks (before getPage and after getTextContent) avoids text extraction that can be large on a dense page.

Process note: the description says approval is still outstanding for this performance change.