View PDF Document Online With Google Docs Viewer

Let’s say you saw this interesting PDF document online and you want to view its content. You normally will download and view it using a PDF reader like Adobe or Foxit Reader.

Personally, I find it annoying downloading, reading and deleting PDF documents that are not so important.
If you share same sentiment with me, you will find the prospect of reading pdf documents online with Google Docs Viewer a life-saver without first downloading them.

How to use Google Docs Viewer

Using Google Docs Viewer is quite very easy. Just append the URL of the PDF document to http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=.


Click to access viewer

View PDF documents with Google Docs Viewer

  • Quick tip – Adobe reader comes with a built-in Firefox plugin that allows the viewing of PDF document in Firefox. more info here.

Aside PDF documents, Google Docs Viewer also support the following other file types.
Google Docs Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, Google Drawings, Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP), Raw Image formats, Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg), Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX), Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX), Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX), Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF), Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF), Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG), PostScript (.EPS, .PS), TrueType (.TTF), XML Paper Specification (.XPS).

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