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How Chrome’s Built-In PDF Viewer Lets You Do More Than Just Read PDFs

The next time you have to fill out a form in a PDF or split a PDF’s pages, you don’t need to dig around for a good program or web app to do the job. As long as you have Google Chrome installed, that’s all you need. Chrome comes with a built-in PDF Viewer tool that can be used to do a lot more than just read PDF files. Sure, it’s not as powerful as Windows programs like PDFSam and there are a few cool apps to annotate PDFs online. Still, as a quick-fix solution, Chrome is perfect. You first need to check if you have enabled PDF Viewer in Chrome. Head to the Omnibox and type: chrome://plugins If you see ‘Disable’ as a link under Chrome PDF Viewer, it’s already switched on. If you see ‘Enable’, click that and restart the browser. The Chrome PDF Viewer can be used to read any PDF, whether online or stored locally. For local files, open a new tab and drag-and-drop the document. With that out of the way, let’s see what you can do with this handy utility. Split Pages Sup