How to Open PDFs Directly in the SharePoint Browser

Muhimbi’s PDF Editor for SharePoint lets you open, display, and navigate through PDF documents in your native SharePoint online or on-premises application. Once a PDF is displayed in your SharePoint browser, you can quickly search and navigate through the document using an intuitive user interface (UI). The viewer includes a suite of out-of-the-box productivity tools that let you edit, annotate, sign, redact, and create forms directly in SharePoint.

Step 1: Opening PDFs in SharePoint

Go to the SharePoint library and click Upload to import a PDF from your computer or select an existing PDF from the library.

Open PDFs in SharePoint

Click Open from the dropdown menu and choose Open in PSPDFKit Editor.

Step 2: Navigating through the PDF Document

Navigate through PDFs

In the top-left corner of the screen, you can choose from a wide range of PDF viewing options:

  • Quick page navigation and zooming in/out
  • Thumbnails view
  • View the PDF document outline
  • View and access all annotations immediately
  • Bookmark pages for quicker access and viewing

Step 3: PDF Tools in SharePoint

PDF tools

Once you’ve opened your PDF in SharePoint, you can make use of a wide variety of PDF tools to work with your document directly in SharePoint:

  1. Edit text in PDFs
  2. Add comments
  3. Add electronic signatures
  4. Redact sensitive data

Free Trial

Try PDF Editor for SharePoint Online free for 14 days by downloading the app directly from Microsoft App Source. This is a full trial version, without watermarks, but limited in time. There’s an unlimited trial version, where all files are watermarked, and you can choose between three different installations: file handler, web part, or online extension. Refer to the table on the free trial page to learn more.

PDF Editor for SharePoint On-Premises covers all different license types and SharePoint editions (2013–2019 and SE). The detailed installation guide is included in the download. During the free trial, all your documents will be watermarked.

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