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I presume one can't use this viewer in your own project (e.g. as a file viewer in a web app). Does anybody know of similar project but that can be used in your

• blasdel 17y ago
  If you serve PDFs with public URLs that Google can GET, you can use this in your web app.
  • patio11 17y ago
    I think he is talking about it being risky to assume that the undocumented cross-site embedding is a feature Google is committed to supporting in the coming years and not, say, a wee unintended data leak that any engineer in their megacorp could plug at any time, including smack-dab in the middle of your public launch.
    • blasdel 17y ago
      But it didn't do this before -- you used to have to explicitly upload the files to a Google Docs account. Someone explicitly added this feature, and I imagine that it will replace the lame "View as HTML" links on SERPs very soon. This ain't going away.
      • ars 17y ago
        It won't replace view as HTML because it's images of the text, not the text itself.
        • blasdel 17y ago
          It does contain the selectable text where available. The real problem is that it's an empty-window UI -- it does nothing without Javascript on.
    • jules 17y ago
      You can always replace it with an <object> tag.
• patio11 17y ago
  Quick Googling suggests that http://vuzit.com/ http://vuzit.com/ would work. You might also be able to hack Thindoc in such a way that it worked for your purpose.
  • furyg3 17y ago
    Don't know why you're downmodded. I use http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com/ http://www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com/ on my own personal site. It works the same way as Google (but has ads), and handles .doc files. I'd much rather use the Google app if it could handle .docs :(