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Open any PDF and read it in your browser. Scroll through the pages, zoom in, jump straight to a page number, and search for a word to see every match highlighted.
Open a PDF to read it in your browser: scroll, zoom, jump to a page, and search the text.
Drag & drop files, or click to browse
PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and more · up to 25 MB
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Choose the file you want to read. Pages load as you scroll, so long documents open quickly.
Scroll, zoom and jump
Scroll to read, use the plus and minus buttons to zoom, and type a page number to go straight to it.
Search the text
Type a word or phrase and press Enter. Matching passages are highlighted on the pages and you get a list of the pages that contain them.
Do more with it
Need to change it? Use the other tools to merge, split, compress, edit or sign the same document.
Yes. Pages are prepared by our server so they display consistently on every device. On the free plan, uploaded files are set to be deleted automatically after about an hour. Uploads can be up to 25 MB.
The PDF is probably a scan, which is pictures of pages rather than real text. You can still read it, but searching needs text recognition (OCR) first. Our OCR guide explains how.
Not directly. Use the Unlock PDF tool first, with the password, and then open the unlocked copy.
Matches are highlighted by the segment of text they appear in, so you see the passage rather than only the exact word. The list of pages tells you where to look.
This page is for reading. To keep a copy, use your original file. To change the document, use the editing, merging, splitting or compression tools.
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