PDF.js Express

What it does

PDF.js Express is a commercial PDF web viewer that wraps around the PDF.js open-source rendering engine. It offers developers a way to quickly add annotation, e-signatures, and form filling to their PDF viewer.

Fast & easy PDF.js Viewer integration with PDF.js Express. Add annotations, fill forms & sign PDFs in a web browser. Fully supported - download & try it free

Our SDK is simple and headache-free. Integrating a fully featured PDF viewer in your project takes just a few steps. PDF.js Express does not rely on any specific framework, so it can easily be plugged into any existing web project. Get 26 pre-built annotations for your PDF.js viewer -- including text highlighting, free-hand draw, comments, shapes, and more. Create custom annotations for unique workflows. Let users fill and submit PDF forms in your viewer. Sign PDFs using hand-drawn annotations, and save signatures for signing multiple pages. Increase adoption by customizing the open source UI -- simplify & remove features, create unique measurement icons and adjust colors to match your…from pdfjs.express

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  Hi HN, Nick here. We're super excited to officially launch PDF.js Express [1]. PDF.js Express wraps a modern React UI around the PDF.js rendering engine to enable PDF annotation, form filling, and signing inside your web app. We've also made some improvements to PDF.js text search, and taken a different approach to how the viewer uses the PDF.js rendering API, resulting in sharp graphics at any zoom magnification [2]. Based on our research, more than 70% of those who try to implement these features on top of PDF.js find it too difficult or time-intensive [3]. For those who are successful,…

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