Kendo UI for jQuery PDFViewer Overview
Updated on May 14, 2025
The PDFViewer displays PDF files in the browser and consists of a toolbar and a scrollable container that wraps the page elements.
The default tools collection includes the pager, open, and download tools. For processing files, it supports the PDF.JS Processing and Telerik DPL Processing libraries. Among the key features the PDFViewer provides are the selection of a PDF processing library, a built-in paging mechanism, virtualization capabilities, a built-in default toolbar collection, and responsive capabilities and page scaling.

Functionality and Features
- PDFjs Processing—The PDFViewer uses the PDF.js library to process files.
- DPL Processing—You can configure the PDFViewer to use the Telerik Document Processing Library.
- Toolbar and Tools—You can configure which tools will be displayed in the PDFViewer.
- Annotations—You can highlight important text areas with different colors or add free text notes in the document.
- Form Filling—You can import files containing PDF forms, and fill in the input elements.
Next Steps
- Getting Started with the Kendo UI PDFViewer for jQuery
- Overview of the PDFViewer (Demo)
- Using the API of the PDFViewer (Demo)