Cross-Platform JavaScript PDF Viewer
Read PDFs on the web with our JavaScript PDF Viewer. Open and print across browsers and frameworks.
- Full-featured JavaScript PDF viewer and PDF editor
- Works in all modern browsers and frameworks including IE11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, React, Preact, and Angular
- Edit, design, fill, submit, reset or print filled PDF forms
- Save modified PDF documents on the client
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Cross-Platform
Cross platform solution to view PDF documents on Windows, MAC, Linux, iOS, and Android devices in all modern browsers.
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Specification Features
Open and view attachments from viewer, navigate through outlines, page labels, and article threads.
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Viewer Features
Supports popular Document Viewer features to view and navigate through the documents.
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PDF Integration
Use the power of our server-side GcPdf API and client-side GcDocs PDF Viewer, to achieve maximum solutions that fit your application needs.
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Web Frameworks
Embed the PDF Viewer in any of the major web frameworks Angular, Vue, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, React, and Preact.
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Editor Features
Edit PDF documents with annotations, design PDF Forms, and modify existing PDF documents with advanced editing options.
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Advanced Text Search
Search documents with specific terms or patterns. Match words, starts with, ends with, proximity search, and wildcard search.
PDF Documents in Collaboration Mode
Experience a new way to collaborate by sharing your PDF documents, providing access for multiple users to edit, comment, and approve changes simultaneously with new options in the GcPdfViewer API.
Try DemoPDF Form Filler Dialog on Any Device
New capability for mobile devices to fill out PDF forms with proper sizing for the small screen. Fields are filled out and then populated in the appropriate places within the underlying PDF.
Try DemoSpecial Input Types
Implement new HTML5 input types with validation to view, fill, and submit the forms (Legal, Reservation, Lease agreement, HR, and Logistics) online by using JavaScript and GrapeCity Documents PDF Viewer.
Try DemoDesigner Features
Copy/paste form fields or annotations on the PDF document using the shortcut keys or clone button. PDF Editor includes snap lines and snap margins to check the alignment.
Try DemoComment and Reply
Review your PDF documents in collaboration with other members. The PDF Editor now includes Text Annotation Comment/Reply tool to add review comments, user names, and status of the comment.
Try DemoEditing Tools
Create and edit PDF forms like timesheets, registration forms, and more with our editing tools. Review or mark PDF documents like financial reports, employee salary slips, invoices. Fast, intuitive UI toolbar and property panel to edit PDF documents. Run the viewer/editor on any platform browser.
Annotations to PDF Documents
Review and mark important information with annotations, add, modify, remove annotations from new or existing PDF documents, apply annotation properties, comment, reply, hide annotations, redact PDF documents, and much more with the new annotation editor.
Design PDF Forms
Create new PDF forms from scratch, collect data directly from the user into the PDF form, fill in data from an external source like a database, modify form fields from new or existing PDF documents, or add JavaScript functionality to PDF forms.
Redact PDF Documents
Mark and remove confidential information by applying redaction within the PDF annotation editor UI. The content is removed from PDF documents and cannot be copied/pasted over other documents or read by other PDF tools.
Fill and Submit PDF Forms
Load PDF forms, fill, reset, submit, and print filled PDF forms from the viewer.
Multiple Languages
Load PDF files with multiple languages, like LTR, RTL, and far-East Asian languages are all supported.
Password-Protected PDF Files
Password-protected PDF files can be opened through the password input dialog.
Highlighted Redacted Content
View and load PDF documents with highlighted redacted annotation as well as show/hide redactions.
Article Threads
Navigate through article threads with a sequence of related pages or page areas. Move forward or backward through the article threads panel.
HTML5 Input Types
Custom input types like dates, telephone numbers, URLs, emails, and passwords are supported with drop-downs generated from GcPdf, GcExcel, and viewed in GcPdfViewer.
Annotations Editor
Add and edit annotations from standard PDF specifications in PDF documents through a wide range of supported annotation properties including sound messages.
Form Editor
Add PDF form fields from standard PDF specifications in PDF documents. Edit existing form fields through a wide range of supported Form field properties.
JavaScript Actions
Supports JavaScript actions related to form fields, buttons, and documents.
Text Selection
Left-to-right, right-to-left, and vertical text can be selected in the viewer through the text selection caret.
Print Options
The viewer provides the option to rotate the document pages. The rotated document can be directly printed from the viewer through the print option.
GcPDF Viewer License Options
The GrapeCity Documents PDF Viewer introduces an option for viewer licenses. Users can now upgrade to the Professional Viewer License, enabling features such as document editing, PDF form-filling, and collaborative editing capabilities. The Standard Viewer License is included with the purchase of the GcPDFViewer and comes with all standard features, including PDF viewing, searching, and more.
A more detailed comparison is below and helps determine what GcPDF Viewer license plan is the best option for you.
Standard Viewer License
- All standard GcPDF viewer features allow view functionalities
- Advanced search
- Custom context menu
The standard viewer option and view features are included with every GcPdf license purchase.
Visit: Configure GcPdfViewer for Standard Features
View topic 'How to License GcPdfViewer'
Professional Viewer License
Includes all Standard GcPDF Viewer version features plus:
- Create or edit annotations
- Redact PDF documents
- Add or modify form fields
- Editing tools-cut, copy, paste, and alignment
- Add and reply to comments
- PDF form filler
- Collaboration
- Licensed per hostname
The Professional Viewer is licensed per each separate Hostname. Subdomains are also considered separate Hostnames. Available purchasing options include:
- Individual Hostname(s)
- Single Domain (*.domain)
- Unlimited Domains (.)
The professional viewer features require the use of a SupportApi property. The GcPDF professional viewer must connect to a server.
Requires GcPdf license and additional fee to access Professional features.
Visit: Configure GcPdfViewer for Professional Features
View topic 'How to License GcPdfViewer'
Contact sales at us.sales@grapecity.com for additional information on pricing or licensing.
Combine multiple features of GcPdf to work with PDFs in scenarios that might exist in real life applications.
This quick tutorial walks you through the basics to create a simple "Hello, World!" app that uses GcPdf to generate and save a PDF file.
Set document properties for a PDF version, document information and metadata.
Create, initialize and use the FontCollection class to manage and use when rendering texts.
Annotations are extra information associated with a particular point and created in GcPDF.
Create AcroForm fields, submit data forms to a server, import XML data, and import data form submitted on the client to a PDF.
Review the basics of rendering text in GcPDF (DrawString and DrawTextLayout), character formatting, paginated text, text trimming, word, character wraps and much more.
Design magazine style, multi-column page layout with balanced columns and outlines.
Create text links to a URL, add outline entries, linked thumbnails to full-sized images, article threads, and destinations.
Generate pages of slides from all images in a directory.
Use linear and radial gradient brushes.
Convert HTML files or strings to PDF, or add fragments of HTML to PDF documents along with other content.
Render samples of all barcode symbologies supported by the GcBarcode library.
Create tagged (structured) PDFs and attach to individual paragraphs.
Load existing PDF into GcPdfDocument, and see how their content can be inspected or extracted.
Attach photos, text, drawings, and files (including AcroForm) to a PDF.
Remove content from PDF documents.
Digitally sign PDFs, inspect signature properties, or remove existing signatures.
Merge several PDFs into one document. Render pages of one PDF into another.
Print page headers and footers in PDF documents.
Save PDF to a multi-page TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF or BMP images.
Encrypt/Decrypt PDF Documents.
View working with other miscellaneous features in PDF Document.
View PDF documents in a fast, modern JavaScript based PDF viewer and Editor that runs in all major browsers.
Load, view and submit PDF Forms with custom HTML5 input types
Edit documents in Collaboration mode in GcPdfViewer.
Form filler customized in JS code for a particular PDF forms
Samples in this group load various PDF forms into the GcPdfViewer.
What's New
- Collaboration Mode – allows multiple people from multiple geographic locations the opportunity to edit, comment, change, and add data as necessary.
- New Custom HTML5 Input Types in PDF Forms – Add in new input types into PDF Forms like Telephone number, Email ID, URL, Month, Week, Number, Range, etc.
- PDF Form Filler - It is now possible to customize field labels, fine-tune the input controls' behavior, and add additional input validation, even if the PDF does not have inline validation or field label information.