You can see here it contains two folders and a LICENSE file:Ībout Us We help software developers do more with PDFs. Step 2 - Extract and Move FilesĪfter downloading PDF.js, we’ll extract the contents from the downloaded. We will download the latest “Stable” release of the “Prebuilt (ES5-compatible)” version, which just means that it’s been tested to work correctly, is ready to go out-of-the-box, and will work with the latest version of JavaScript. The easiest way to download PDF.js is to visit the official PDF.js project page on GitHub. To add a PDF.js viewer to our website, we will follow three simple steps.
The benefits of PDF.js rendering compared to native browser rendering are: It allows you to render PDFs inside a web page by using JavaScript instead of the browser’s built-in PDF support. PDF.js is a popular, open-source JavaScript PDF viewer, originally developed by Mozilla and maintained by an open-source community. (It will not work in Internet Explorer.) If you need to support Internet Explorer or customize the user interface, you should consider the next approach - PDF.js rendering.
This approach will work in all modern desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.
