PDF Viewer Server

Document Engine offers developers a server-based cloud PDF viewer that can be used by PSPDFKit’s Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native frontend SDKs. Its server-side rendering guarantees consistent performance and fidelity for your users, no matter their device. It can also be used for synchronizing documents and annotations to your server and across sessions, as well as managing authentication. It can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure.

Launch Demo

Key Capabilities

  • Faster performance — Server-based rendering, with pages streamed on demand

  • Self-hosted — Maintain complete control over your data

  • MS Office and images — Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TIFF, JPG, and more

  • Secure authentication — Easy integration with existing systems

  • User permissions — Fine-grained centralized control over documents

  • Version control — Ensure access to the most current document

  • Document security — Stream image tiles instead of the full document

  • Extendable — Add annotations, forms, signatures, and more

File Type Support

  • PDF and PDF/A

  • DOC, DOCX

  • XLS, XLSX

  • PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX

  • RTF, ODT

  • JPG, TIFF, PNG, HEIC, GIF, WEBP, SVG, TGA, EPS

See the full list of supported file types.

How It Works

  1. Your server uploads the PDF document to Document Engine.

  2. You can display the document using the returned document ID.

Diagram showing how Document Engine rendering of Office files works

Supported Clients

Document Engine can integrate seamlessly into the following PSPDFKit frontend SDKs: