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PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code

02.07.2012
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Quite amazing: PDF.js is a JavaScript library that displays PDFs in browsers. At version 0.2, it comes with the requisite warning: “Note: This is an early-stage prototype. Several documents might not render properly.”

 

The PDF.js Firefox add-on displays a PDF file on the web.

From http://www.2ality.com/2012/02/pdfjs.html

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