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Qt Pdf Viewer Library

The qt-pdf-viewer-library is a qml wrapper of pdf-js library which allows you to render PDF files in a WebView. This library also works for Android devices, and it uses WebSocketServer, WebSocketTransport and WebChannel to exchange data between qml and the browser environment.

Dependencies

The qt modules needed by the library are:

• webchannel
• websockets
• webview

Features

• the library is open source (Apache-2.0 license)

• the library supports desktop, embedded, and android devices

• the library allows PDF rotation, zoom in/out, text search, scroll mode, scale mode, change view visualization, pages preview, error handling

• the library is UI indipendent: all operations on the PDF are provided by the PdfView component.

• easy setup

• more info can be found on github

Testing

The qt-pdf-viewer-library has been tested on the following qt versions:

• Qt 5.12.4 (Desktop)
• Qt 5.15.2 (Desktop and Android)
• Qt 6.2.2 (Desktop)

on the following Android devices:

• Galaxy Nexus, API 22, Android 5.1
• Nexus S, API 23, Android 6.0
• Nexus S, API 24, Android 7.0
• Pixel 2 XL, API 27, Android 8.1
• Pixel 4, API 28, Android 9.0
• Redmi Note 8 pro, API 29, Android 10
• Nexus 5X, API 29, Android 10
• Nexus 10, API 30, Android 11
• Pixel XL, API 30, Android 11

and on the following os:

• Linux KDE 20.04

Screenshots

The sample app and the screenshots can be found on github.