Project Summary
pdf.js is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient Portable Document Format (PDF) renderer without native code assistance.
pdf.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs, and eventually release a PDF reader extension powered by pdf.js. Integration with Firefox is a possibility if the experiment proves successful.
In a Nutshell, pdf.js...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 54 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2011
ending with its most recent commit about 23 hours ago
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Apache License 2.0
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