"The primary design goals of iPaper were that it be fast, light and easy to use. At 100 KB the iPaper application is about 1/1000th the size of Adobe's Acrobat Reader software, making it an incredibly fast way to view documents," explains Scribd. While the viewer lacks some features from Adobe Reader, most notably a way to copy text, it renders documents at a high quality, preserving the layout and the pagination.
Similar to YouTube, you need to upload your document, wait until it's converted to Scribd's internal format (that shouldn't take more than a minute) and embed the code into your site. Scribd lets you upload multiple documents at a time and it displays useful stats: the number of views, search queries that led to your document, a visitor map and more.
The site also launched a platform "that allows anyone to bring the iPaper experience to their own website." You could add some code that replaces the links to PDF or Office documents with links to Scribd's viewer, without having to convert the documents manually.
All in all, Scribd has one of the best online PDF viewers and could complement Google Docs, which lacks very good document viewers, shared spaces and a community.
{ via GigaOM }
I work with Scribd's PR firm. Just wanted to let you know that iPaper does support copy/paste, although I see it doesn't seem to be working in the doc you embedded. Here is another document taken from the front page of Scribd where you can copy/paste. It works on most, but is still a little buggy once in a while.
ReplyDeleteJust for good measure, one more example from the home page.
iPaper indeed supports copy/paste, but the button does not appear when the iPaper window is displayed in a narrow space. Simply click the fullscreen button at the top right to display all the buttons on the toolbar.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the button that lets you select text, but you can't copy it. I tried Ctrl+C, but it didn't work in most of the documents I've tried. Evan's example seems to be mostly OK.
ReplyDeleteCtrl-C worked fine for me in firefox.
ReplyDeleteI can't use my mouse wheel to scroll down. The pages just keep going up! :(
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There is a open source project out there which does the same thing as scribd but better: http://www.devaldi.com/?page_id=260
ReplyDeletehttp://www.devaldi.com/?page_id=260 appears to only convert PDF's though, what if you want JPG's, docs, excel etc.
ReplyDeleteIs there any other Viewer Which can convert all Docs into a plain html without losing the native doc format.
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