PdfCraft-android is an open-source reimplementation of the Adobe Acrobat Reader Android app, created using the same Rust engine, PdfCraft, as the desktop app, and built with a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose UI framework.
Many credits to the original maintainers, storytold.
Reading · Navigate · Comments · Forms & Fill & Sign · Edit PDF · Read aloud · Tools · Home · Light theme · Architecture · Planned features · Building
The PdfCraft Showcase, a 13-page specimen PDF, open on its cover.
Twelve writing systems, vertical Japanese and colour emoji, with the bars hidden by a tap.
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| Reading Mode: text reflowed to the screen | Night Mode, from View settings |
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| Pages: every page at a glance | The outline, and bookmarks of your own |
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| A comment's thread, ‹ 3 of 17 › and Reply | The Comment List, by page |
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| Every fillable field tinted blue | Fill & Sign: a signature placed with a tap |
Edit PDF: tap a paragraph to edit its text, change its style, move it or rewrap it.
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| Read aloud, the words marked as they're read | The full player: time left, Voice and speed |
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| More tools, and Customize toolbar | Compress PDF, one of the tools that make a new file |
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| Home: the tools, Recent, Starred and On device | The Tools tab: every tool, by what it does |
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| The viewer in the light theme | Home in the light theme |
How the app and the engine fit together. Generated with GitDiagram.
PdfCraft for Android is in beta.
| Area | Status |
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| Open PDFs from files, other apps and Recent; Starred, On device, Files and Search | ✅ |
| Reading: continuous and single page, Reading Mode, Night Mode, find, text selection, links, bookmarks and contents, attachments | ✅ |
| Read aloud with the phone's voice, the words marked as they're read, and a full player | ✅ |
| Comments: notes, voice comments, highlight, underline, strikethrough, drawing (snap to shape), text; the Comment List and threads | ✅ |
| Forms, and Fill & Sign: text, marks and a drawn or imported signature | ✅ |
| Edit PDF: edit text, add text and images, move, resize and turn pictures | ✅ · cropping a picture ⬜ |
| Organize and crop pages | ✅ |
| Compress, combine, set password, create PDF (images, text, office documents), scan | ✅ |
| Export to Word, RTF, Excel, PowerPoint, JPEG and PNG | ✅ · Word 97 ⬜ |
| Recognize text | ✅ (the Latin alphabet without accents) |
| A customizable quick toolbar, upright and sideways layouts, light and dark themes | ✅ |
| AI assistant, cloud storage, sharing for review | 🚫 PdfCraft is a local app |
✅ works today · 🚧 in progress · ⬜ not started · 🚫 not planned
One Gradle command builds the whole app: it compiles the Rust engine with cargo-ndk and generates the Kotlin bindings.
- Clone this repository
- Make sure you have at least 3 GB of free disk space
- Recognize text's models (12 MB, CC-BY-SA-4.0) are in
assets/models/;apps/pdfcraft-android/fetch-models.shdownloads them again if you need to - enter
apps/pdfcraft-android/androidand run./gradlew assembleRelease, or open that folder in Android Studio and press Run.
Build time dependencies:
required tools
rustup (it installs the Rust release and Android targets rust-toolchain.toml names)
cargo install cargo-ndk --version 4.1.2 --locked
Android SDK (API 37) and NDK 29.0.14206865
JDK 17 or newer
Builds are only tested on Windows 11.
MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option. PdfCraft for Android is not affiliated with Adobe; Acrobat is a trademark of Adobe Inc.
Try to use semantic commit
messages. Use feat: / fix: / chore: / docs: / etc.