Give your PDF a URL that opens right in the viewer
Drop a PDF and get a short address that renders in the browser's built-in PDF viewer, plus a QR code for print. Free, no sign-up, no reader app on the other end.
Drop your file here
Anyone with the link · images, audio, video, docs, text & data, or .zip
By uploading, you agree to our Terms and Data Processing Terms and confirm you have the right to share this content.
Three steps from document to URL
Drop your PDF
Drag the document onto the box above, or browse to pick it. Reports, contracts, scans, and portfolios all work the same way.
We validate, store, and OCR it
The file is checked, stored, and run through text recognition, then published at its own short address. Even a scanned page ends up with selectable, searchable text.
Send the address, not the file
Paste the URL into an email or chat, or put the QR code on a printed page. Recipients read the document in the browser tab that opens; saving a copy stays optional.
Why readers prefer a URL to a PDF attachment
No-download reading
The document renders in the browser's own PDF viewer, page by page. Nobody has to save a file to their Downloads folder, hunt for it later, or install a reader just to see it.
Heavy documents travel light
A 60-page brochure with print-resolution images bounces off mail servers as an attachment. As a URL it weighs a few dozen characters, and only readers who open it fetch the bytes.
The printed page meets the web
PDF keeps your layout, typography, and pagination exactly as designed for print; the URL and QR code make that fixed layout reachable from a poster, a business card, or a footer.
Where a PDF link earns its keep
Client deliverables and proposals
Send a proposal, quote, or final report as an address the client opens in one click. It arrives instantly regardless of size, reads cleanly on a phone in the browser viewer, and never gets flagged as a suspicious attachment.
Menus, brochures, and printed handouts
Print the QR code on the physical piece and the digital PDF is one camera scan away. When the season's menu changes, upload the new file and reprint only the code's surroundings, not a whole run of laminated pages.
Portfolios and one-page CVs
A designer's portfolio or a CV shared as a URL keeps its typography pixel-perfect in the viewer, and because the text layer is real (or OCR'd from a scan), recruiters can search and copy from it.
PDF link questions, answered
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. Without an account you can publish a PDF of up to 30 MB; a free sign-in raises the ceiling to 50 MB. There is no watermark and no paywall in front of your reader.
- Can I use it without registering?
- Yes. The drop zone above works for anonymous visitors; the trade-off is a smaller size cap and a shorter link lifetime. Registering is free and only ever raises those limits.
- How long can people open the link?
- A PDF published anonymously stays readable for 48 hours; with a free account the document remains at its URL for 30 days. An expired address returns nothing at all rather than a degraded preview.
- Is the text inside searchable?
- Yes. Every upload passes through OCR, so a photographed contract or a scanned book chapter gains a real text layer. Readers can select, copy, and Ctrl+F the content, and screen readers get something to work with.
- Can I chat with the PDF?
- Chat-with-file is available today via our developer API; a one-click UI is coming.
- How does the inline viewer behave on phones?
- The link serves the PDF with headers that ask the browser to display it inline, so mobile Safari and Chrome render it in the tab with pinch-zoom and page scrolling. Recipients who do want a copy can still save it from the viewer menu. On desktop the same address opens full-width, with the browser viewer supplying zoom, search, and print controls.
- Will the document print correctly from the link?
- Yes. What we serve is your original PDF, byte for byte, so printing from the browser viewer uses the exact page sizes, margins, and fonts you exported. Nothing is re-rendered to HTML and nothing reflows.
- Who can open the URL, and is the file scanned?
- Anyone holding the exact address can open it, and the address is a long random string that is not listed or indexed anywhere by us. Uploads are validated as genuine PDFs, so a disguised executable never gets published.
Generating documents in code? The upload API turns each PDF into the same browser-ready URL with a single HTTP request.