Setup PDF.js in a website

You can choose to use a pre-built version of PDF.js, or build PDF.js from source.

Pre-built PDF.js

With npm

This way works by loading this file pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.js after you install pdf.js:

npm install pdfjs-dist

With webpack/browserify

If you use webpack or browserify there is an easy way to require the files:

var pdf       = require('pdfjs-dist/build/pdf');
var pdfWorker = require('pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.worker');
// Still figuring out how to use with worker.

From examples

When the source code of PDF.js changes, the online demo is automatically updated. The source of all demo files can easily be accessed at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/gh-pages/.
These files can also be uploaded to your server to use PDF.js to display PDF files from your website

1. Download https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/archive/gh-pages.zip.

2. Extract the zip file (a directory called "pdf.js-gh-pages" will be created).

3. Copy the following directories to your website:

   • pdf.js-gh-pages/build/
   • pdf.js-gh-pages/web/
     The web/ directory contains a 1 MB pdf file called "compressed.tracemonkey-pldi-09.pdf". This file is only used as an example for the demo and can safely be removed if you need disk space.

4. If you want to open a PDF from your website with PDF.js, simply link to the viewer and pass the location of the PDF file. For example:

   <a href="/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fyourpdf.pdf">Open yourpdf.pdf with PDF.js</a>

Build PDF.js from source

Linux

• Instructions for Linux can be found here.

Windows

• Instructions for Windows can be found here.