View Documents online without signing up (Open Source):

1. Google Docs Viewer:
   
   
   Google Docs is one of the most popular cloud based document editor and this is very easy tool to view documents online by using embedded code.
   Ex:  
   
   
   <iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/gview?url='Document_url'”
   
   style=”width:600px; height:400px;” frameborder=”1”>
   
   </iframe>
   
   OR
   
   <iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/viewer?url='Document_url'”
   style=”width:600px; height:400px;” frameborder=”1”>
   
   </iframe>
   Supported Formats: PDF, XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PSD, TTF,                                     SVG, XPS
   
   RND Result: PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, XLSX, TTF, XPS -Working
   
   DOCX, PPTX -Not working 

2.  Zoho Document Viewer:

1. 
   Zoho also a leader in providing web based documents and spreadsheets editing functionalities
   also has a very handy Zoho document viewer.
   
   This viewer is also same Google docs viewer. Zoho docs also gives an option for embedding
   
   the document via an iframe code.
   
   Ex: <iframe src="https://viewer.zoho.com/api/urlview.do?url='document_url'" style="width:600px; height:400px;" frameborder="1"></iframe>
   
   Supported Formats: Microsoft Office - doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pps;
   
   OpenDocument - odt, ods, odp; OpenOffice:sxw, sxc, sxi;
   
   Other Formats - wpd, pdf, rtf, txt, html, csv, tsv .
   
   RND Result: Still not working this API
   
   Error: Error occurred. Please try again.

3. View Docs online Viewer:

View Docs Online has a cool interface for viewing documents. The flash based interface

has almost all useful features like zooming, selecting text and viewing pages as tiles.

View Docs Offline also gives you an embed code for embedding to your website or blog.

Ex: <iframe src="http://www.viewdocsonline.com/embed/<'DocumentURL'>"

frameborder="0" width="600" height="500"> </iframe>


Supported Formats: Microsoft Office – DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PPS, XLS, XLSX.

PDF – PDF, PS.

Open office - ODT, ODP, SXI.

Text – TXT, RTF.



4.DocsPal Viewer:

DocsPal has an added feature of converting the documents from one format to another.

It has a very beautiful interface and you’ll be given two options at the beginning,

asking you to either convert or just view a document. Upload your file or give its URL and

view it on the fly. The file format converter is also very impressive and gives good results.

Comment: This viewer has excellent options for viewing and converting all

documents formats. And also given option for viewing

videos/audio/images.




5.Vuzit Viewer:

Web based(online) document viewer. Does't support embed url.

6. Samurajdata Viewer:

           This is a very simple document viewer which also allows viewing a document on the internet via its URL .

Open Source Api.

Supported Formats: Only PDF, Doc,Docx, PostScript.

7. Scribd Viewer:

This is also Online document viewer.

8.  Box viewer:

This is also online document viewer with Embedded option.

Ex: <embed src="https://boxmarketing.box.net/embed/'DocumentURL'" width="466"

height="400" wmode="opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" >

Supported Formats: Microsoft Office – DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, PPS, XLS, XLSX.

PDF – PDF, PS.

Open office - ODT, ODP, SXI.

Text – TXT, RTF.

                                                                         -PAVANKUMAR JOSHI