PDF.js

Getting Started

Browser Extensions

Firefox

PDF.js is built into version 19+ of Firefox.

Chrome

• The official extension for Chrome can be installed from the Chrome Web Store. This extension is maintained by @Rob–W.
• Build Your Own - Get the code as explained below and issue npx gulp chromium. Then open Chrome, go to Tools > Extension and load the (unpackaged) extension from the directory build/chromium.

Including via a CDN

PDF.js is hosted on several free CDNs:

• https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/pdfjs-dist
• https://cdnjs.com/libraries/pdf.js
• https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist/

Learning

You can play with the PDF.js API directly from your browser using the live demos below:

• Interactive examples

More examples can be found in the examples folder. Some of them are using the pdfjs-dist package, which can be built and installed in this repo directory via npx gulp dist-install command.

For an introduction to the PDF.js code, check out the presentation by our contributor Julian Viereck:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv15UY-4Fg8

More learning resources can be found at:

• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Additional-Learning-Resources

The API documentation can be found at:

• https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/api/

Questions

Check out our FAQs and get answers to common questions:

• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

Talk to us on Matrix:

• https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#pdfjs:mozilla.org

File an issue:

• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/new