6 alternatives to pdf.js

mozilla/pdf.js — PDF Reader in JavaScript (54,032 stars, Apache-2.0, files, ui, integration).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 323 licence-cleared components from mozilla/pdf.js itself.

The alternatives in detail

• foliojs/pdfkit
  A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
  score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 10,724 stars · 62 components · search them
• parallax/jspdf
  Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
  score 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 31,319 stars · 53 components · search them
• storytold/pdfcraft
  PdfCraft: An open-source PDF reader and editor written by scratch in pure Rust
  score 5.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 19,261 stars · 628 components · search them
• unjs/unpdf
  📄 PDF extraction and rendering across all JavaScript runtimes
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,255 stars · 16 components · search them
• uurtech/jdf
  JDF — a JSON document format. Renders like PDF, diffs in git, edits in any text editor, reads natively for LLMs. Desktop Reader, jdf.js web embed, CLI.
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 87 stars · 111 components · search them
• richardr1126/openreader
  An open-source read-along document reader server with high-quality TTS options, synchronized highlighting, and audiobook export for EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, and MD.
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 556 stars · 677 components · search them

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