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

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

Web Viewer - Functions

  • Navigate manually (user action) or programmatically through a document
  • Show thumbnails
  • 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.)
    • Add custom stamps (based on JPEG, PNG or TIFF files)
    • Freetext annotations
    • Highlight annotations (highlight, strike out, underline, squiggly)
  • Enter password to decrypt PDF documents
  • Read document from file or memory
  • Rotate and display the page
  • Support for FDF file format
3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer - annotations in browser

Conformance

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

Supported formats

Input formats

  • PDF 1.0 to 1.7, 2.0
  • PDF/A
  • FDF (Form Data Format)

Output formats

  • PDF 1.0 to 1.7, 2.0
  • PDF/A
  • 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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