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Universal document-preview library to render any file instantly

Rahul Vohra pitches a document-preview API: throw it any file and get a fast, zoomable, interactable web preview. He notes the only current options (G Drive upload, Microsoft's 5MB-capped libraries, or Box's old Crocodoc library) all have major downsides.

“As far as I can tell, there isn't a really great document preview library that you can just throw any file and it will produce a zoomable, interactable, renderable preview.”

Steal thisBuild a document-preview API priced pay-as-you-go by file size, with enterprise integrations and SLAs at the high end.