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24 alternatives to jPDFViewer
Java PDF Visual Component to Display PDFs
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. jPDFViewer launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I built EmbedPDF: an MIT-licensed, open-source PDF viewer that aims to match all of Adobe Acrobat’s paid features… for free. Already working: - Annotations (highlight, sticky notes, free text, ink) - True redaction (content actually removed) - Search, text selection, zoom, rotation - Runs fully in the browser, no server needed - Drop-in SDK for React, Vue, Preact, vanilla JS Why? Acrobat is heavy, closed, and pricey. I wanted something lightweight, hackable, and embeddable anywhere. Demo: https://app.embedpdf.com/ Website: https://www.embedpdf.com/ GitHub:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Display PDF documents and allow users to review and edit PDF
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
2022 · lookscanned.io · its alternatives →
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a Java library to create and manipulate with PDF documents
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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A free PDF reader with all PDF annotations & form filling
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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allows your application to get and set field values
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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TL;DR: private, in-browser converter that turns pretty much any image file format into standard JPEGs. Everything runs locally. No uploads. This started as a five-minute job and forty hours later... I wanted to convert a HEIC without uploading it anywhere, so I wrestled Emscripten/WebAssembly to run Google's Jpegli inside a Web Worker. Now there's a small UI and it handles a bunch of formats. Just about the only thing it can't decode is JXL - but there's still some JPEG XL magic in there: XYB perceptual color quantization is enabled by default via Jpegli. The upside of all this…
2025 · onlyjpg.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, creator of EmbedPDF here. I recently posted my open-source PDF viewer here, and one thing I really value is that it runs completely offline. I started wondering if we could push that further: could we do full ML layout analysis (detecting tables, headers, columns) directly in the browser? To my surprise, it actually works. The catch: It is far from production-ready. It crashes on most phones, and on older computers, it can be incredibly slow. The why: I believe the future of document processing is local. Many users work with sensitive documents (bank statements, legal contracts) and…
2025 · embedpdf.com · its alternatives →
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To optimize and reduce the size of PDF documents
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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Here's a neat hack I made recently to do basic PDF editing directly in a browser—without having to upload anything to a server. I was initially looking for a way to do simple PDF modification (extracting pages, merging, and adding page numbers). There are some good server-side tools for this (QPDF, PDFTk, PDFBox, iText, Hummus), but for better speed and privacy I really wanted a 100% client-side solution. There are a few good JavaScript PDF libraries for reading and displaying PDFs (pdf.js) and creating PDFs from scratch (jsPDF, PDFKit), but I couldn't find any for editing existing PDFs. So,…
2018 · its alternatives →
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A PDF viewer for Vue using Mozilla's PDF.js that supports both Vue2 and Vue3 - arkokoley/pdfvuer
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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create images from pages in a PDF document and export them
2018 · qoppa.com · its alternatives →
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