Preview .doc/.docx/.pdf files before uploading to server

Question

I\'m using HTML5 File API to get some document(.doc/.docx/.pdf) uploaded. And I want to show that document preview before uploading it to server. Is there any way to do such thi

Answer 1

Back in the days you were able to do something like that:

Not sure if this is still supported, but if so, you could use JS to inject that object onto the page to preview it.