Use Sharepoint for machine manuals

Hi guys,
this is my first time in this forum. I'm working for a mechanical machines builder.
I would like to put the machine manuals to internet, so the client can download it.
Any manual is composed by several .pdf documents. Some .pdf files are the same for many manuals.
I want give a user-name and password to any client, (I don't want to create a domain user) , so he could access only documents I want.
I would like to use sharepoint for doing that. Is it possible ?
Thanks for any help
Massimo

Hi Massimo,
Welcome to SharePoint on premise product forum. As I understand, you have some .pdf files to share with other users via Internet.
In the first place, you would like to know that install SharePoint farm without active directory is not supported. You could refer to the article below for detail information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2764086
SharePoint 2013 product is more than sharing document, working with SharePoint can help us
share work and work with others, organize our projects and teams and discover people and information. For more information, please refer to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/sharepoint/sharepoint-2013-overview-collaboration-software-features-FX103789323.aspx
If you just want to save and share document on the Internet, Microsoft OneDrive product could also be taken into consideration. You need a Microsoft mail account to log into OneDrive, and you could share your document with others on different permission.
See this:
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/
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