Open Source Web PDF Viewer?

Asked 14/5, 2010 at 12:7 Answered 16/9, 2012 at 23:5

Is their any Open Source Web PDF Viewer?
Which has good api through which I can modify the looks of the viewer?
I had tried the Scribd, Google Docs, FlexPaper , and this also.
But it is not giving me, as I want.
Then i had downloaded the shadowbox but it has not given me information about how to use it?
So anyone know good web pdf viewer and it would be great if it offers the customization
And that should be great if it is in php.
Thanks in advance...

Merissa answered 14/5, 2010 at 12:7 Comment(1)

possible duplicate of Open Source Javascript PDF viewer – Gnosis 28/8, 2011 at 5:4

I don't think you're going to find a PDF viewer that's in PHP. The decoding of the PDF format happens on the client, which means your only options are either relying on the client to do the decoding work for you (Adobe Reader, Google Chrome's built-in reader, OS X's Preview app, etc.), rendering it with Javascript, or figuring out some way to convert the PDF into HTML.

PDFs are so ubiquitous these days, that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to want to try to render it for a client; rather, simply tell them that the file they're downloading is a PDF and offer links to either Chrome or Adobe Reader, and let the user view the PDF in whatever app they please.

Eldoraeldorado answered 28/7, 2011 at 21:50 Comment(0)

There is a wonderful pdf viewer which is opensource too. The ui implementation is basic. You will have to work on it. But its awesome.

http://view.samurajdata.se/

Jobber answered 1/12, 2011 at 11:52 Comment(2)

Looks like this software is obsolete... Its source code delivers PHP4 code and HTML code where Johann Sebastian Bach just worked with. – Offutt 19/6, 2012 at 20:33

That means it has to be ported. Or maybe there will be some new ones already. :) – Jobber 22/6, 2012 at 14:2

There is also a project from Mozilla called PDF.js. They're hoping to get it to a point where it's available as part of Firefox.

Get it at: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/

I've tried it out myself and it works very well. The only issue is the source JS files are about 1.4mb which is rather large and I couldn't minify them due to some weird coding standards.

Vivacity answered 16/9, 2012 at 23:5 Comment(2)

awesome component; does it only work in Firefox? how about other browsers? IE/Chrome/Safari? – Momism 7/11, 2012 at 6:1

Does for me. I ended up writing a jQuery plugin around it. dev.funkynerd.com/projects/jquery-pdfdoc – Vivacity 17/11, 2012 at 22:41

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