Inspect, select, edit and delete the elements inside any PDF
About this app
PDF Inspector opens a PDF and shows what is actually inside it. Like a browser's developer tools, it parses each page's content stream into a navigable tree of elements (text blocks, vector paths and images) so you can find any single element, select it on the page or in the tree, and edit it. Edits go to a saved copy; your original file is never touched.
Highlights:
* DevTools-style element tree: every page is parsed into a structured tree of text, path and image nodes, grouped the way the PDF draws them. Switch between friendly labels and the raw content-stream operators. * Two-way selection: tap an element on the page or tap its row in the tree, and the other side highlights to match, with a clear bordered outline on the canvas. * Edit in place: move and resize an element, recolor its fill or stroke (entered as hex, with the element's color space shown), and retype text. When the original font lacks a character, re-encode the line with a fallback font, bundled or taken from your device or imported. Changes are written straight back into the content stream, with full undo and redo. * Surgical delete: remove exactly the element you picked by rewriting just its part of the content stream, leaving the rest of the page untouched. * Save a copy: write your edited PDF to a new file through the system file picker; the source document is left unchanged. * Smooth viewing: pan and pinch-zoom, fit to width or height, a global zoom that carries across pages, and a full-screen mode. * Dockable inspector: the inspector panel docks to the side in landscape or the bottom in portrait, can be resized, and can be made transparent to see the page through it. * Material You: Material 3 design with dynamic color on Android 12+, light / dark / system themes and a choice of accent colors.
Private and open:
* Open source, no accounts, no telemetry. * No network access and no storage permission: files are opened and saved through Android's Storage Access Framework, so the app only ever touches the documents you explicitly pick.
PDF Inspector works with the drawing primitives a PDF already contains: select, move, resize, recolor, retype and delete them. It is not a word-processor-style text editor, so lines do not reflow, but when the original font is missing a character you can re-encode the text with a fallback font, bundled or taken from your device or imported.
Licensed under MIT, by Shardul Vikram Singh.
What's New in v0.3.2
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - improved inline text editing
- - more fonts added
Version history
Jun 16, 2026 · 20.9 MB · Android API 26–35 · code 9
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - improved inline text editing
- - more fonts added
SHA-256 a47e6f7db8154d19a87ffc98596ef7d307149fc1677ab9edc5372584c3c26ca0
Jun 9, 2026 · 16.7 MB · Android API 26–35 · code 6
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 5dd7b598e8c1866abf65f391d77a8ddc94ed34bf1f0173cd79a2abaef4d820f5
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
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How to roll back to an earlier version
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