Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
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Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
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Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#2Very useful!
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#3Actual project link (OP just goes to Chrome/NSA app store): http://notabledocs.com/
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#4Actual project link (OP just goes to Chrome/NSA app store): http://notabledocs.com/
The listing on the Chrome store is more up to date, so I linked to that - but the landing page works too :)
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#5What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#6What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
The extension is currently only available for Chrome, but all the functionality is available at http://web.notabledocs.com/web/viewer.html - If you share your document, that's what the other people get. We actually work offline (including making comments) if you install the extension.
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#7What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
It's a browser extension, but the benefit of web apps in general is portability. This one has the advantage (from the looks of it) of solving a very hard problem, that of being able to view and manipulate pdf files. AFAIK there is no other easy and free way to do this in Linux, for one.
edit: It doesn't appear to let you edit a pdf, just annotate. Which is still incredibly useful to be able to do alone or collaboratively.
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#8This is EXACTLY the product I wanted to make, thanks!
I think a use case for which you could sell it is collaborative class note-taking. My teachers distribute PDFs of their lecture slides before class which students use to take notes on (so that they don't have to recreate figures, etc). I have always thought it would be great for this PDF-markup process to take place live in some sort of Google Doc interface. This looks like the best solution I have seen so far!
If you really wanted to run with the student use case, you could then allow students to publicly/privately organize the annotated notes by class and lecture slot so that other people could benefit from the notes.
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#9pdf.js is great. we used it at surfly to implement purely web-based collaborative pdf viewer that works on any modern browser.
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