Documentation

From PDF to a reader on your site.

Start with a public PDF. In a few steps you have a link for readers and an embed for the page where the document belongs.

Choose your next step.

Use the short guide that matches the job in front of you. Technical integrations stay clearly marked as product direction until their public contract is ready.

Reader

Start with a public PDF

Choose one PDF up to 25 MB on the home page. When the upload finishes, EmbedFox gives you a reader URL straight away. You do not need an account to share it.

Copy the link or embed

Send the reader URL wherever readers expect it, or copy the generated snippet into your page. The embed loads a reader that fits its host page instead of sending visitors to an unrelated document directory.

<div data-embedfox="your-document-slug"></div> <script async src="https://pub.embedfox.com/embed/v1.js"></script>

Read on any screen

Readers can move between pages, search available PDF text, zoom, open fullscreen and share a link to a specific page — /d/your-slug/p/12 opens page twelve directly, and data-embedfox-page does the same inside an embed. On a phone, the reader uses one page at a time and supports two-finger zoom.

For publishing tools

Ready public readers advertise a standard oEmbed response. A CMS or another publishing tool can use it to discover the same responsive embed without handling your document ownership data.

Guides

Each part of the product has a focused guide: the quickstart from upload to embed, the reader guide for controls, deep links, contents and search, the embed guide with the full snippet attribute reference, the document library guide for claiming, public details and replacing a file under the same link, and the direction pages for the publishing API and publishing events.

Know the public boundary

Public upload lasts seven days. An anonymous upload creates a public reader URL that expires seven days after creation. Use it only for material you can publish openly.