[simon-fakir]

I answered this question already somewhere else, however, I did an evaluation between multiple solutions. Also if you are planning for commercial use, these might be helpful:

free solutions

• iframe: Just use an iframe, however, this is not what most people search here.
• [Google Docs Preview] Google docs has a preview (See other answer here)
• Pdf.js is the open source solution without external dependencies
• Adobe offers a ‘free’ PDF Embed API – recommended approach if you are okay with a cloud based solution.

Commercial Providers

• Pdf.js Express is commercialized extension to Pdf.js (worst performing product, not expensive)
• PSPDFKit – Provder from Austria with rather good business support (moderate pricing, good product)
• Foxit – Chinese company providing a PDF web solton as well. (cheapest commercial offer)
• PDFTron – US-based competitor to PSDPDFkit ( more costly but also mot advanced)

Hope this helps. I might publish more detailed information in a blogpost, if this is helping people (let me know in comments).

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