Adding PDFs to Your Webpage without JavaScript

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Edited at 4:03PM to add a small note to the end. In my time at Adobe, one of the products I evangelized was the PDF Embed API, a JavaScript library for adding PDFs to a web page. I still recommend this library of course, but I was thinking this morning about how you could get similar results without JavaScript. Remember, you are allowed to build a web page and not ship any JavaScript. It’s ok, I won’t tell. Before looking at what I built, some context to why someone would use a library like Adobe’s PDF Embed: Browser’s have great built-in PDF support, natively, but the display is typically the entire page, which means you lose the context of the rest of your site. There’s... more →
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Using Cloudflare’s AI Workers to Add Translations to PDFs

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Late last month, Cloudflare announced new AI features in their (already quite stellar)Workers platform. I’ve been a big fan of their serverless feature (see my earlier posts) so I was quite excited to give this a try myself. Before I begin, I’ll repeat what the Cloudflare folks said in their announcement: "Usage is not currently recommended for production apps". So with that in mind, remember that what I’m sharing today may change in the future. The Demo # Before I get into the code, let me share what I’ve built. Now, at the time I wrote this, Cloudflare’s AI stuff was still in beta and there is no cost yet for using the features. This is, obviously, going... more →
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