3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer - advanced PDF visualisation in JavaScript

Developer component – The 3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer API is a compact, high-performance, high-quality javascript PDF viewer. It offers a multitude of navigational and display options for displaying documents. This viewer is mainly characterized by its increased performance and its uniform and simple interface.

View

View your PDF documents in high quality in browsers and on mobile devices

Integrate

Seamless and efficient integration in your corporate browser and web applications

Annotate

Apply pictures, text or more to your PDF documents

Meeting preparation using annotations in 3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer

Thanks to the 3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer, end users are able to edit PDF documents directly in the app or browser solution during a meeting, without additional software. The key requirements of the project were fulfilled: the same software can be used across all platforms without alterations.

Integrated PDF/A conversion in real-time

ABF Informatik was successful in improving the ease of use for their customers, thanks to a multitude of complementary products from the same supplier. At the same time, the reduced variety of deployed third-party solutions considerably saved them time and effort.

PDF Web Viewer - Advanced PDF visualisation & annotation feature in JavaScript

Web Viewer - Functions

  • Navigate manually (user action) or programmatically through a document
  • Select between different fit modes: actual size, fit to width, fit to height
  • Rotate and display the page
  • Show thumbnails and use them for navigation
  • Show outlines (Bookmarks)
  • Change language of the GUI (currently English and German supported)
  • Create, edit and delete annotations
    • Text annotations
    • Ink annotations (free hand drawings)
    • Stamp annotations (Draft, Approved, etc.)
    • Freetext annotations
    • Highlight annotations (highlight, strike out, underline, squiggly)
  • Touch handling for mobile devices
  • Enter password to decrypt PDF documents
  • Read document from file or memory or from a blob
  • Supports the Forms Data Format (FDF) file format
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Conformance

  • ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7)
  • ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
  • ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A-1)
  • ISO 19005-2 (PDF/A-2)
  • ISO 19005-3 (PDF/A-3)

Supported formats

Input formats

  • PDF 1.0 to 1.7
  • PDF 2.0
  • PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3
  • FDF (Form Data Format)

Output formats

  • PDF 1.0 to 1.7
  • PDF 2.0
  • PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3
  • FDF (Form Data Format)
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MANUALS

API

Areas of use - mobile-friendly viewer from desktop to mobile devices

Document viewing via browser

Get industry leading rendering quality for high fidelity document presentation. Usable in all corporate areas and in every modern browser. Runs indepently and efficient on every device with corresponding browser.

Annotate

While viewing and reading the PDF documents in the browser the user is able to add and share notes. Apply pictures, text or more in the PDF documents.

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