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A PDF viewer that seamlessly integrates with any JavaScript project

8 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2025-05-29 · latest 2026-02-18

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    Show HN: Open-source PDF layout analysis running entirely in the browser
    story by bobsingor · 2026-02-18 · 0 comments
  2. …is Apache 2.0. I’ve updated the project to comply with the redistribution requirements in this PR: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/pull/80/files . Thanks for flagging it!
    comment by bobsingor · 2025-08-14 · in Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer
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    Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer
    story by bobsingor · 2025-08-14 · 95 comments
  4. …host your own .wasm build if you want to be 100% sure it hasn’t been modified. Here’s the commit: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/commit/ff928377... Thanks again for raising the point — really good feedback!
    comment by bobsingor · 2025-05-31 · in Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)
  5. Good question. You can fully reproduce the build. We have a Dockerfile here that handles the process: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/blob/main/packa... Also, if you look in the package.json, there is a wasm script set up.…
    comment by bobsingor · 2025-05-30 · in Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)
  6. …it. Actually, most of what you’re describing is already there. We built a tiling plugin ( https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/tree/main/packa... ) that works kind of like Google Maps — instead of rendering the full document, it…
    comment by bobsingor · 2025-05-30 · in Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)
  7. …or is there a way to bring our own if it's a generally available asset? Referring to this file: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/blob/main/packa...
    comment by jerrygenser · 2025-05-29 · in Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)
  8. …but closed-source and expensive. There hasn’t really been a good middle ground — until now. GitHub: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer Demo & Docs: https://www.embedpdf.com
    comment by bobsingor · 2025-05-29 · in Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)