Open a PDF From Local Storage in Flutter PDF Viewer

14 Aug 20261 minute to read

The SfPdfViewer.file creates a widget that displays the PDF document obtained from a File. The following code example demonstrates this.

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
      body: SfPdfViewer.file(
              File('storage/emulated/0/Download/flutter-succinctly.pdf')));
}

On Android, add the android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Since the file system is not accessible from the browser, SfPdfViewer.file is not supported on Flutter Web.