Use HTML5 to display PDF files if users don't have pdf plugin for their browsers.
Thanks to pdf.js project by Mozilla.
With this module you can use pdf.js to display PDF file all the time or only use pdf.js when visitors don't have pdf reader plugin.
Use this module with apachesolr_file (recommend with file_entity 7.x-2.x), you can build your owned online library.
How to install pdf.js
Download pre-built pdf.js from here and extract is into your Drupal libraries directory (Drupal 8 uses /libraries instead of /sites/all/libraries). The folder in your libraries folder must be named to pdf.js. Make sure your directory structure like this:
pdf.js library directory
Supporting organizations:
Project information
- Project categories: Media
- chart icon8,531 sites report using this module
- Created by shenzhuxi on , updated
- shieldStable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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Releases
8.x-1.3
Stable release covered by the Drupal Security Team
released 15 December 2025
Works with Drupal: ^10 || ^11
Install:
Development version: 8.x-1.x-dev updated 15 Dec 2025 at 09:38 UTC