Validate the PDF
A public upload accepts a valid PDF up to 25 MB.
PDF viewer for website
A PDF viewer that stays on your website.
Upload a PDF and place its reader in the page where customers, members or readers already need the document.
PUBLIC READER · WEBSITE EMBED · 25 MB TOTAL · 7 DAYS
Publish a PDF
No account required. Uploaded documents are public and expire after seven days.
From source to reader in three moves.
Publish a document, share a focused reader and keep the experience on the website you own.
Open a responsive reader
Readers get navigation, zoom, fullscreen and page-specific links.
Paste one snippet
The versioned loader creates an isolated iframe and resizes it safely.
Live demo
This is what your readers get.
FOXFIELD is a fictional field journal we publish through the same pipeline as any customer document. The reader below is a real embed — page through it, search it for “fox”, zoom in.
Know the public boundary.
Anonymous uploads create a public reader URL and expire after seven days. Use this tool only for material you can publish openly.
- PDF text search depends on an existing text layer; scanned PDFs require OCR before they can be searched.
- Upload a PDF up to 25 MB total.
- The publishing plan scope covers persistent libraries, publisher identity, private delivery and aggregate reader analytics.
Questions this page answers.
What publishers ask before they publish this kind of document.
- Is this the browser's built-in PDF viewer?
- No. EmbedFox renders its own reader, so the controls look and behave the same in every browser instead of changing with the visitor’s PDF plugin.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. The reader shows one page at a time with pinch zoom on a phone and can show spreads on a desktop, and keeps the same page links either way.
- Will it slow the page down?
- The embed loader creates its iframe only as it approaches the viewport, so a viewer further down a long page costs nothing until someone scrolls to it.
Keep reading.
Where publishers usually go next from here.