Reading Documents¶

PhotoPrism indexes PDF files as documents and renders their first page as a cover image, so they appear in search results next to your pictures and videos. Clicking a document opens it in the built-in viewer, where you can read all of its pages without downloading the file first.

Finding Documents¶

Navigate to Search > Documents to browse everything that has been classified as a document. You can also limit any search to documents with the document:yes filter or the more general type:document filter. Learn more ›

Using the Viewer¶

Open a document by clicking its cover in search results. The viewer loads all pages and shows the following controls:

Thumbnails¶

A strip of page thumbnails is shown on the left so you can see the structure of a document at a glance and jump straight to a page. Use the button to hide the strip and give the page more room. It is not available on phones, where it would take up most of the screen.

Pages¶

Scroll to move through the document, or use the and buttons next to the page number. To jump to a specific page, type its number into the page field and press Enter. On a keyboard, Up, Down, and Page Down scroll the current page.

Zoom¶

A document opens at a zoom level that fits a whole page on your screen where possible, and fits the page width otherwise. Use the and buttons to change it, or pinch with two fingers on a touch screen. When a page is larger than the window, you can drag it with the mouse to pan around.