PDFera: PDF Reader & Editor

Read, annotate, scan and convert PDFs on your phone with PDFera. Merge files, compress PDFs, sign documents and make scanned pages searchable — no sign-up needed, and PDFera never uploads your documents.

*/ Read and annotate
• Open PDFs, including password-protected files.
• Search text, follow links, use the table of contents and named bookmarks.
• Highlight, underline, strike through and add notes; undo any change.
• Read in normal, sepia or night mode, go full screen, keep the screen awake or lock rotation.
• Print documents and open PDFs shared from other apps.

*/ Organize and compress
• Merge PDFs, or split by page range, every N pages or one file per page.
• Reorder pages by dragging thumbnails; rotate, delete, extract, insert and crop pages, with undo and redo.
• Compress PDFs with a size estimate first. Free has light and balanced levels; Pro adds strong, black-and-white for scans and a target size in KB or MB.
• PDFera edits pages, annotations and signatures; the text already printed on a page is kept as it is.

*/ Scan, recognize and convert
• Scan paper with your camera, adjust the detected page corners, apply filters and combine pages into one PDF.
• Turn photos into a PDF, or save PDF pages as JPG or PNG images, one by one or in a ZIP.
• Recognize text on your device to make scanned PDFs searchable and copyable — more than 70 languages, 17 built in and the rest downloaded in the app when you need them.
• Convert PDF to a Word file with editable text (page images optional), or to Excel with one sheet per page. Scanned pages need text recognition first to give editable text.

*/ Sign and protect
• Draw, type or import your signature; choose the ink colour and line weight, then drag, resize and rotate it on the page. Keep up to 5 signatures.
• Lock a PDF with strong password encryption and choose whether it can be printed or copied. Remove a password when you know the current one.

*/ Your documents stay private
PDF processing happens on your device; PDFera never uploads your documents and every feature works without signing in (a Google sign-in is asked only to redeem a Pro activation code). Every change to a PDF is saved as a new copy next to the original. Exports carry no watermark, even on Free. Name each file when you save it, search your library and browse the versions of a document. Compression never gives you a bigger file.

*/ Free and Pro
Free: unlimited reading, search, printing, reading modes, annotations, scanning and signing. Merge, split, light/balanced compression, saving organized pages, image/PDF conversion and PDF to Word/Excel share 1 free use per day; watch 1 short optional video for 1 more (up to 2 a day). Set a password 3 times a day; removing a password is unlimited. Text recognition covers page 1 of each document. Free includes ads.

Pro: unlimited daily use of every tool, text recognition on all pages, strong, black-and-white and target-size compression, unlimited password protection, no ads and no videos to watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically, or a one-time lifetime purchase. No free trial.

*/ PDFera speaks 17 languages and comes in light, dark and system appearance.

Recent changes:
New in v1.0.1:
• Save or Save as: after you organize pages, compress, lock or unlock, sign, recognize text or add notes, choose Save to update the document in PDFera, or Save as to keep the original and create a new copy.
• Back from the reader with unsaved notes now asks before leaving.
• Smaller app images and other improvements.