In this article we share 6 jquery pdf reader or pdf viewer. These jQuery Plugins may not be cool like flash but it’s lightweight when you integrated with your webpage.
1. 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 and is compatible with all web hosting services The plugin converts an element (usually an <a>) into a <div> which holds the object, embed iframe tags neccessary to render the media content.
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2. ZOHO Viewer plugin for jQuery
The ZOHO Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer that requires only a URL to a file available online. This, 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. Automatically embeds the ZOHO viewer 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.
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3. Google Docs Viewer plugin for jQuery
The Google Docs Viewer is an embeddable browser-based viewer that requires only a 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.
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4. pdf.js
pdf.js is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient Portable Document Format (PDF) renderer without native code assistance. pdf.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs, and eventually release a PDF reader extension powered by pdf.js. Integration with Firefox is a possibility if the experiment proves successful.
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5. pdfobject
A JavaScript library for dynamically embedding PDFs in HTML documents.
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6. jspdf
Generate PDF files using pure client-side JavaScript.
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Premium jQuery Plugins
jQuery Document Viewer
Document Viewer is a jQuery plugin that allows you to view several file formats directly in a web page.
DimViewer (images/PDFs tool)
DimViewer is a web page tool that enhance user experience when displaying images or PDF files.