PDF viewer
To open a PDF file, drop it in the box below. It opens straight away, even with no extension or the wrong one. Your browser opens it on your device: nothing is uploaded.
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Opened on this device, never uploadedDrop or paste another file at any time
What you see
| PDF in the viewer | |
|---|---|
| Pages | Drawn as you scroll, so long PDFs open fast |
| Zoom | 25% to 400%, sharp at every step |
| Details | Pages, title, author |
| Copy the text | Open in, Copy the text (it also reads scans) |
| Extensions | |
| Upload | None: opened on your device |
What is a PDF file?
In short
PDF is the document format meant to look the same everywhere: forms, invoices, papers and scans.
Every page, drawn sharply as you scroll to it, with zoom. Details lists the page count, title and author. A password-protected PDF is named as such.
How to open a PDF file
- Add your PDF. Drop the file in the box, choose it or paste it.
- Look at it. Every page, drawn sharply as you scroll to it, with zoom. Details lists the page count, title and author. A password-protected PDF is named as such.
- Take it further. Open in hands it, in a new tab, to Image and PDF to text, File converter or Batch.
Questions
Yes. Drop it here: your browser draws the pages with pdf.js, without installing anything.
Open in, Copy the text reads the words from the page pictures on your device.
No. The viewer runs in your browser and opens the file on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.