Open Source Javascript PDF viewer

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mhb picture mhb · Aug 22, 2010 · Viewed 101.1k times · Source

Is there any open source Javascript based PDF Viewer available? Any guide to developing this kind of script that renders PDF docs would be helpful.

Answer

imladris picture imladris · Jul 5, 2011

There are some guys at Mozilla working on implementing a PDF reader using HTML5 and JavaScript. It is called pdf.js and one of the developers just made an interesting blog post about the project.

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