Guides

PDF guides for merge, compress, split, and OCR

How to finish a PDF on Android: combine files, shrink one enough to email, pull out pages, rotate a scan, and copy the text. Each guide ends in the ViaPDF controls that do the job.

Merge

Merge PDF files on Android

Combine two or more PDFs into one file, set the page order, and drop pages you do not need. On your phone, offline.

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Compress

Compress a PDF on Android

See the real new file size before you share. High, Medium, or Small, with the before-and-after numbers on screen.

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Split

Split a PDF on Android

Pull out the pages you need, or type a range like 1-3, 5. ViaPDF saves that selection as a new PDF on your phone.

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Merge

Combine PDF files into one

Turn a pile of separate PDFs into one attachment: invoice, contract, receipt. Set the order, then share a single file.

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Compress

Reduce PDF file size for email

When an attachment is rejected, shrink the PDF on your phone and check the new size before you send it again.

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Split

Extract pages from a PDF

Keep page 4, or pages 2 through 6, as a new PDF. Type the range or tap the thumbnails. The original stays intact.

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OCR

Copy text from a PDF

If the PDF has real text, copy it. If it is a scan, ViaPDF recognizes the page on your phone so you can copy that too.

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Rotate

Rotate PDF pages

Turn a sideways scan upright. Rotate every page, or only the pages that are wrong, by 90 degrees at a time.

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Privacy

An offline PDF app

Merge, split, compress, rotate, and copy text with no account and no upload. The PDF stays on your phone.

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Pricing

A PDF app with no subscription

Try every tool. The first Share or Save is free. Then unlock the toolkit once for $14.99. No monthly plan, no ads.

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OCR

OCR a scanned PDF

Turn a photo of a page into words you can copy, search, and save back into a searchable PDF. On device.

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Merge

Reorder PDF pages

Move pages into the order a reader expects, and drop a blank, without uploading the file. One PDF in, one PDF out.

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Choosing an app

What a phone PDF toolkit should do

Five jobs cover most phone PDF work: merge, split, compress, rotate, and copy text. Here is how ViaPDF handles each, and what it leaves out.

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Ready to finish the file?

Download ViaPDF free on Android. Offline, first export free, one-time unlock.

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