IceViewer Online Manual

Introduction and Overview

Supported Operating Systems and Installations

Supported File Formats

Installation, Licensing and Registration

Installing the IceViewer TIFF

Installing the IceViewer TIFF Server

Installing the IceViewer PDF

Installing the IceViewer PDF Server

Installing the IceViewer Pro

Installing the IceViewer Pro Server

Updating the IceViewer

Registering the IceViewer

The evaluation version of the IceViewer is expired

Uninstalling the IceViewer

Installing the OCR Language Pack for the IceViewer

Publishing IceViewer with Citrix XenApp

Using the IceViewer TIFF, IceViewer PDF and IceViewer Pro

IceViewer Options

Password protect PDF documents

Editing an Image

Viewing Images and Documents

Add Text and Marks to the Document

Optical character recognition

Organize PDF Documents

Organize TIFF Documents

Getting Information about a File

Annotating TIFF Documents

Annotating PDF Documents

Editing Text in PDF Documents

Add and edit hyperlinks

Using the Comments Panel

Document Cleanup

Keyboard shortcuts

Quick Start - Hotkeys

IceViewer for Tablets

Configure the default file association on Windows 11 and 10 with Group Policy

Configuring default viewer on Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019 and 2016 using Group Policy

The IceViewer INI File

Using the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extension

Supported browsers

Enable or disable the extension in Google Chrome

How to install the IceViewer Browser Extension for Microsoft Edge

Enable or disable the extension in Microsoft Edge

Installing the IceViewer Chrome / Edge extension without an active internet connection

Supported file formats

Supported MIME Types

Opening files without downloading

Enable opening PDF documents in the IceViewer browser extension

Enable PDF opening in Edge/Chrome extension through Group Policy deployment

Password protect PDF documents

Download Document

Export document to PDF

Viewing Multipage Files

Draw on the document

Search with OCR

Intelligent Redact

Annotating TIFF and PDF Documents

Using the Comments Panel

Add text to the document

Rotating Images

Copy and Paste Pages

Page Properties

Keyboard shortcuts

Embed the IceViewer Chrome and Edge extension on your website

GPO deployment of the IceViewer Chrome extension

Customization of the IceViewer Chrome/Edge extension

Opening files with the IceViewer extension in a new browser tab

How to open each file on a new tab

Detecting if IceViewer extension is installed – Message Passing API

Using the IceViewer Core Web Application

Supported Browsers

Supported File Formats

Starting and Closing the IceViewer Core

Enable opening PDF documents in the IceViewer Core

Enable PDF opening in IceViewer Core through Group Policy deployment

Password protect PDF documents

Export document to PDF

Viewing Multipage Files

Draw on the document

Search with OCR

IceViewer Core AI Assistant

Intelligent Redact

Annotating TIFF and PDF Documents

Using the Comments Panel

Add text to the document

Rotating Images

Copy and Paste Pages

Page Properties

Keyboard Shortcuts

Embed the IceViewer Core on your website

GPO deployment of the IceViewer Core

Customization of the IceViewer Core

Opening files with the IceViewer Core in a new browser tab

How to force open each file on a new tab

Using the Microsoft IE Browser Plug-In

Enabling/Disabling Browser Plug-In

Supported File Formats and MIME Types

Opening TIFF files

Open TIFF files in the same browser Tab every time

Editing an Image

Saving TIFF Files

Uploading files to SharePoint

Send Email with the Browser Plug-In

Viewing TIFF Files

Viewing Multipage Files

Getting Information about TIFF Files

Rotating and Flipping Images

The IceViewer Browser Plug-in INI file

Troubleshooting and Support

IceViewer Core Troubleshooting

IceViewer Extension Troubleshooting

The IceViewer registry keys for “Open with”

The IceViewer extension is not installed, how do I install it manually?

Tiff files are being downloaded, instead of opened in the IceViewer extension in Chrome or Edge

Automatically delete files after being downloaded

The IceViewer extension setting changes are not applied

Error opening a PDF document in the Chrome / Edge extension

IceViewer Chrome / Edge extension suddenly removed from domain computers

IceViewer Browser Plug-In is not working

IceViewer error codes

System Error 1612 when uninstalling or updating using the MSI installer

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