Comparison
Compare out-of-the-box features between PDF.js and PDF.js Express. PDF.js is an open-source PDF library that was created by Mozilla in 2011 to let you open and render PDFs in web browsers using JavaScript. PDF.js Express is a fully-featured commercial PDF.js viewer with a modern and customizable UI.
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When to use PDF.js:
- Users need to view PDFs
- UI/UX does not need to be a competitive differentiator
- Users won’t need to zoom in to see details
- The text search tool can miss some relevant text within a PDF
When to use PDF.js express:
- Users need to view, annotate, form-fill, or sign PDFs
- Your app needs a modern, highly customizable UI/UX
- Users expect sharp graphics when zoomed in
- The text search tool needs to find relevant text within a PDF
With PDF.js Express you can easily add out-of-the-box
features to your PDF viewer
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