Technology[edit]

In July 2008, Scribd began using iPaper, a rich document format similar to PDF and built for the
web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page. [53] iPaper was built with Adobe Flash,
allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux)
without conversion, as long as the reader has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non-
Flash support for the iPhone).[54] All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including
Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument documents, OpenOffice.org
XML documents, and PostScript files.
All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either be private
or open to the larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is also embeddable in any
website or blog, making it simple to embed documents in their original layout regardless of file
format. Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash. [55]
On May 5, 2010, Scribd announced that they would be converting the entire site to HTML5 at
the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.[56] TechCrunch reported that Scribd is migrating away
from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman tells me: 'We
are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we
believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can
become a Web page.'"[57][58]
Scribd has its own API to integrate external/third-party applications, [59] but is no longer offering new
API accounts.[60]
Since 2010, Scribd has been available on mobile phones and e-readers, in addition to personal
computers. As of December 2013, Scribd became available on app stores and various mobile
devices.[citation needed]