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Ask HN: Open-source PDF Viewer for my Website?

11 pointsby DarrenMillsabout 15 years ago
If you know a really good one, please take a second to drop a name here.

7 comments

zbanksabout 15 years ago
I know it's not OSS, but scribd.com is a really useful service. They have a decently powerful API that lets you upload the doc and let them handle hosting, rendering, metadata, etc.<p>I'm not sure if this will work for you, but sites like drop.io seem to use it pretty well.
NLarkabout 15 years ago
Google docs viewer has worked well for me: <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/viewer</a><p>Example here: <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-document-viewer.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-d...</a>
bmillsabout 15 years ago
I built this for a project I'm working on. <a href="http://github.com/Benmills/pdfize" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/Benmills/pdfize</a><p>It's a jquery plugin that uses the google pdf viewer. Here is a demo: <a href="http://files.bmdev.org/pdfize.html" rel="nofollow">http://files.bmdev.org/pdfize.html</a>
asnyderabout 15 years ago
I can't think of any OSS, but Vuzit makes a pretty good one that you can add and embed in your website without having to host your files with them <a href="http://vuzit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://vuzit.com/</a>.
stseabout 15 years ago
Don't know if I would call it really good, but pdf2swf might be a start.<p><a href="http://www.swftools.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swftools.org/</a>
sevenabout 15 years ago
Not sure if this is an option for you, but you could run OpenOffice in headless mode and script it to convert pdf files to html.
rbrcurtisabout 15 years ago
if you are into the java ee scene you can look into icepdf by the icefaces people. I've never personally used it but is is OSS now so it might work out for you.<p><a href="http://www.icepdf.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.icepdf.org/</a>