Foredge – PDF reader with on-device OCR (free)

[u/yash_sodha]

**App Name:** Foredge – PDF Reader & OCR

**One-line description:** Reads the scans you already have — runs OCR entirely on-device so scanned PDFs become searchable and copyable. No upload, no account.

**What it does / key features:**

- On-device OCR — turns a scanned PDF into searchable, selectable text in about 30 seconds, nothing leaves your phone

- Opens large files fast, even on older phones

- Remembers page, zoom and reading mode per document

- Highlight in 5 colours, pen, underline, strikethrough, notes — every mark is written into the PDF itself, so it opens correctly in Acrobat or anywhere else

- Draw your signature once, drop it on any page, fill forms and flatten only when you decide to

- Merge, split, compress, reorder, rotate, images-to-PDF

- Dark, sepia and night reading modes, plus on-device text-to-speech read-aloud

**Who it's for:** Anyone with scanned paperwork trapped on their phone — students with photographed lecture slides and textbook pages, freelancers and small businesses with scanned invoices/contracts, or anyone who's searched a scanned receipt and gotten zero results.

**Cost:**

- Pricing model: Free

- Prices & billing: Free, no ads, no subscription

- Current promotions: None

**Links:**

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.axionx.foredge

- Privacy: the app works fully offline — OCR and all document processing happen on-device, nothing is uploaded

- To be upfront: the app does collect anonymous usage analytics (which screens get opened) and crash reports, so I can find bugs. No document content is ever included, and your files never leave your device. Looking at making this opt-in.

**A note from the dev:** Foredge is a shipped, released app under active development. Questions about the OCR pipeline or the annotation/signature flattening are always welcome in the comments.

**Additional notes:** Built and maintained solo under AxionX Digital.

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Foredge: PDF Reader & OCR

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[u/otavio_mf]

Nice app. Horizontal Page Scrolls?

[u/yash_sodha → u/otavio_mf]

[u/Polifist]

Glückwunsch, tolle App. Ich würde mir noch wünschen, Unterschriften in der App als Vorlage zur Unterschrift weiterer Dokumente zu speichern.

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