# Universal Viewer

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The **Universal Viewer** is a powerful document viewer. **The Universal Viewer** is an open source project (<https://universalviewer.io/>) that cultural heritage institutions are using in order to present their digital artifacts in a **IIIF-compliant** and highly customisable user interface.

**IIIF** stands for the **International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).** IIIF refers usually to one or two things (and sometimes both at the same time):

* A set of open standards that help archives, libraries, and museums make the most of their digitized collections with deep zoom, annotation capabilities, and more, and
* The community of users and developers who work everyday to enrich the **IIIF** ecosystem and advocate for its adoption.

The **Universal Viewer** client can provide many benefits:


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