This project is no longer in development. If you are looking for cross-platform solution, check out React Native or Flutter. If you are looking to add to your current Cordova/Ionic project, check out the WebViewer sample.

PDFTron's Cordova PDF library brings smooth, flexible and stand-alone document viewing and editing solutions for local and server codebases setup using Cordova for iOS, Android and Windows as well as various browsers.

PDTron's PDF SDK is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers ). It is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software with support available from Developers and Solution Engineers.

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Implementation

Depending on your requirements and preferred development environment, PDFTron can be integrated into a Cordova project through our native iOS or Android plugin, as well as through our pure JavaScript library (WebViewer).

The relative strengths of each approach are outlined below. This will help you decide which approach with Cordova best suits your needs.

Two ways to use Cordova with PDFTron technology:

WebViewerNative plugin

GitHub samples

• WebViewer & Cordova
• iOS and Android native Cordova plugin

WebViewer

WebViewer is a pure client-side JavaScript library to view, annotate and edit documents. It is compatible with any JavaScript framework, including Cordova, by using a DOM element to place the document viewing component. WebViewer has a pre-built Cordova sample specifically designed for integrating into a Cordova project.

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PDFTron’s fully supported WebViewer is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers ). PDFTron technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software.

Works with

• Desktop Browsers
• Mobile Browsers
• Windows Desktop Applications

Customizable

• UI source code is included (built in React)
• Create custom annotations
• Change annotation appearance
• Customize annotation behaviour
• Internationalization through JSON language files
• Rich set of APIs for more advanced customization

File type support - web

• PDF, PDF/A
• DOCX, XLSX, PPTX (MS Office software or licenses are not required)
• JPG, PNG
• MP4, WEBM, OGG (via WebViewer Video build )

Browser support

Cordova Windows Documentation
For more information about Windows Platform Support.

Cordova Android Documentation
For more information about Android Platform Support.

Cordova iOS Documentation
For more information about iOS Platform Support.

Native plugin

The Native Plugin provides identical JavaScript interfaces to PDFTron's native mobile SDKs for iOS and Android which are designed to mirror the WebViewer API.

The NativeViewer is a part of the Native Plugin and provides a sizable subset of the WebViewer API and functionality and is more consistent with mobile performance and user expectations. For iOS, it exposes a PTDocumentViewController , and for Android, it exposes a PdfViewCtrlTabHostFragment . Visit our Cordova github sample.

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Works with

• Android Applications
• iOS Applications

OS support

• Android 4.1+ (API Level 16)
• iOS 11+

Unique Functionality

• Direct MS Office document viewing and conversion
• Fully customizable open source UI to improve app engagement
• Document reflow to increase readability and accessibility on mobile
• File streaming to view remote and complex documents faster
• Night mode to improve viewing in low-light environments
• And much more...

File type support - native

PDF

Office

^ MS Office software or licenses are not needed to support Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file types.

Image

Other

** XOD is available on all platforms but viewing encrypted XOD is only supported for Web

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