PDF is an extremely common file format for reading and viewing documents on the internet. This post aims to provide you with a comprehensive list of the best JavaScript and jQuery PDF viewer plugins available.
I’ve gathered all of these PDF viewers through web searches and have compiled them here for your convenience. All you need to do is include the library files for these jQuery PDF viewer plugins in your project, and you’ll be able to easily view PDF files.
ZOHO – jQuery Viewer plugin
The ZOHO Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer that requires only a URL to a file available online. This needs a user account just like Google Docs Viewer, bypasses the need for users to have compatible software on their machines for those file types and displays the document right in the browser.
ZOHO viewer supports for viewing the doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pps, odt, ods, odp, sxw, sxc, sxi, wpd, pdf, rtf, txt, html, csv, tsv files it supports linked to by anchor tags.
You can also checkout other tutorials,
- Exporting a DataTable into PDF File
- Exporting a DataTable to CSV
- DataTables Export to Excel using HTML5
pdf.js – popular jQuery pdf viewer plugin
PDF.js is a very popular portable Document Format (PDF) jquery viewer plugin which is based on HTML5.PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs.
jsPDF – HTML5-based PDF Viewer Plugin
jsPDF is a popular HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs.You can use this library to generate event tickets, reports, certificates, your name etc. It’s very easy to use you just need to include the jsPDF library in your, generate your PDF using the many built-in functions, and then hook up a button to trigger the download. All the examples here use jQuery.
jQuery Google Docs Viewer plugin
The Google Docs Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer plugin. You just need to pass the online docs URL to a file available online. This neatly bypasses the need for users to have compatible software on their machines for those file types and displays the document right in the browser.
pdfobject – Embeds PDF files into HTML documents
An open-source and lightweight JavaScript PDF viewer plugin that dynamically embeds PDF files into HTML documents.
jQuery Media Plugin
The jQuery Media Plugin supports unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content. It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page. The plugin converts an element (usually an 'a') into a div which holds the object, embed or iframe tags necessary to render the media content.
AnyChartStock – JavaScript API to generate Chart in JPG/PNG/PDF
AnyChartStock is chart chart-based PDF viewer, You can generate a chart as a static image in the PNG ,JPG format and PDF document.The generated image is a fully interactive functional chart is like user sees it on the page.
