Best option for PDF viewer embedded in web app

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Published on 2011-09-08T14:20:31Z Indexed on 2013/06/24 22:31 UTC
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I have a web app that needs to be able to display a PDF. It needs to allow the user to page through the PDF, and my application needs to be able to know which page is currently being viewed, because other aspects of the web app will change based on the current page. Ideally it would not be dependent on the client having Adobe Reader but I could probably support that dependency.

What are my best options for this? My application stack consists of ASP.NET 4 along with optionally Silverlight 5. Also, I could use something that is client-side based as well using JavaScript / HTML if such a thing exists.

I found ComponentOne's offering for this and that seems like the leading candidate at this point, but I want to know if there are other options I should consider.

Edit: Per Fosco's comment, converting the PDF to another format (such as HTML) might be an option, as long as I could tie back parts of the converted document to the original PDF page #s.

Another note: this has to run entirely on our servers. It would not be acceptable to use a third-party service to view the PDFs.

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