Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Building W-9 Crafter

  I first started building the app in the browser, using PDF.js and Download.js to take a PDF and edit it, and then download it to your computer. - Source: dev.to / 29 days ago

• How to Write a Cold Email

  I'd think opening a PDF in your browser would be at the same risk-level you associate with going to any random URL. On Firefox at least, I'm pretty sure the built-in PDF viewer is simply JS parsing and rendering the PDF anyway -- nothing with elevated permissions: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• PDF Chat with Node.js, OpenAI and ModelFusion

  We use Mozilla's PDF.js via the pdfjs-dist NPM module to load pages from a PDF file. The loadPdfPages function reads the PDF file and extracts its content. It returns an array where each object contains the page number and the text of that page. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Printing as PDF: Chromium takes ages and 5Mb, while Webkit is super fast and light

  I’ve been using pdf.js before, worked quite well. Source: about 1 year ago

• Pdf files and Javascript

  If you want a 'safe' way to read PDFs use Firefox, they have their own web module to render PDFs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Help with feasability of an idea!

  Yes, this is doable. You can do something like this with PDF.js. Source: over 1 year ago

• I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser

  Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib. Source: over 1 year ago

• I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser

  I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib. Source: over 1 year ago

• how to make image from pdf file in assets??

  Because it looks like that you're looking only for a solution that works on the web, you might be able to use pdf.js. Source: over 1 year ago

• PDF reader you say?

  I primarily use PDF.js, the pdf reader embedded into amongst other things Firefox. It was developed by Mozilla for Firefox though. The mayor benefit is that you get Javascript processes isolation and security which is always nice. Source: over 1 year ago

• is there a browser that let's you view pdfs online without downloading them?

  Are you thinking of something like PDF.js Https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. Source: over 1 year ago

• PDF Reader

  Something you probably already have built into your web browser? PDF.js. Source: over 1 year ago

• Online web questionnaire to PDF

  I've done a fair bit of this sort of work, my preference is a web form that is laid out similarly to the PDF ( not essential though ) that generates the PDF on the client or server-side. HTML2PDF is a server-side PHP library I've used a lot, try PDF.js if you want to do it in the web browser. Source: over 1 year ago

• I built a wrapper to easily embed my PDF editor (SimplePDF) in any React app!

  I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code. Source: over 1 year ago

• [REQUEST] Replacing Brave's Chromium-based PDF viewer w/ PDF.js from Mozilla

  Here is the GitHub link to Mozilla's PDF viewer and here is the link to the online demo of the PDF viewer. Source: about 2 years ago

• Spent the last few weeks working on new features for Resumary (a new resume builder that's designed to get you more interviews) and wanted to share them with you

  Not op, but pdf.js is one of the most widely used. Source: about 2 years ago

• JavaScript, like HTML, is not a programming language.

  Only because it is displayed as HTML5, does not mean the viewer or the the thing creating said document can't be written in JS. Https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to annotate PDFs in the browser

  I don't know how to use PDF.js for this task. I would rather not use PDF.js because it is huge (file size). Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there any library to fill values in a PDF form?

  Jokes aside, I think you can us Annotation Layer in pdfjs from mozilla. Source: over 2 years ago

• Privacy & security aspects of PDF.js

  I had thoughts of using Mozilla's PDF.js (https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/) in one of my project. I want to make my project privacy focused. Source: over 2 years ago

• PDF viewer integration examples

  You must see this: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/. Source: almost 3 years ago