Java Viewer API - display documents within your applications

API to view over 50 document formats from any Java based application without requiring any external viewers.

GroupDocs.Viewer for Java

Overview

Overview

GroupDocs.Viewer for Java is a compelling document viewer API. Use it within your Java applications for rendering more than 50 documents and image formats. It rasterizes both documents and images. This Java API renders text from documents and converts it to SVG, HTML and CSS – offering file rendering with high fidelity true-text.

At A Glance

An overview of Java document viewer API.

Image Representation

Conversion to Images
Supports Caching

Transformation

Rotate Page
Reorder Pages
Add Watermarks

HTML Representation

Conversion to SVG+HTML+CSS
Supports Caching

View Document as PDF

View Document as Original

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Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Viewer for Java supports any Desktop or Server environment with Java run-time version 1.6 or above

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Desktop
Windows Server
macOS
Linux

Java Runtime Environment

J2SE 6.0 or higher

Installation

Maven

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50+ file formats supported

Java file viewer API supported formats listed

Microsoft Office, Visio & Project

Word: DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTX, DOCM, DOTM, RTF
Excel: XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB
PowerPoint: PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX
Visio: VSD, VDX, VSS, VSX, VST, VTX, VSDX, VDW, VSTX, VSSX
Project: MPP, MPT
Outlook: MSG, EML, EMLX
OneNote: ONE

OpenDocument & Other Formats

OpenDocument Formats: ODT, OTT, ODS, ODP, OTP, OTS
Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
Images: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, multi-page TIFF, WebP
AutoCAD Drawings: DXF, DWG (2004)
Metafiles: EMF, WMF
Web: HTML, HTML5, MHT, MHTML
Text: TXT, CSV
Other: MOBI, ICO, EPUB, XML, TEX, DjVu

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Advanced Java Document Viewer API Features

Render email attachments

HTML Representation : Rasterize documents and convert them to SVG+HTML+CSS

Image Representation: Rasterize documents and convert them to image format

PDF Representation: Convert documents to PDF format for displaying

Display documents in your application in its original format

Use Cache feature for fast loading only for HTML5 and image representation

Rotate Pages: supported with only HTML5 and Image representations

Reorder Pages: only for HTML5 and Image representations

Watermark: Add text as watermark to all pages and images of the output

Quick & Reliable Document Viewer API

Viewer API has the ability to quickly display different document formats with just a few lines of code. It's simple

Get image representation of the document pages - Java

 // Set viewer configuration
ViewerConfig  config = new ViewerConfig();
config.setStoragePath("D:\storage\"); 
 // Create ViewerHandler
ViewerImageHandler _imageHandler = new ViewerImageHandler(config);
 // Get images
List<PageImage> pages = (List<PageImage>) _imageHandler.GetPages("sample.docx");

Java Viewer API Common Functionalities

Besides above features, API allows viewing functionality in HTML or image format as a whole document, page-by-page or custom range of pages. It could be further characterized via the following key functions

Allowing all application functionality to be controlled programmatically
Render files as HTML or image for each document type
Set of predefined options for viewing in all modes with proper default values for each option
Multiple rendering options - including transformations and watermarking
Abstract Storage and Cache API