PaperPage

PaperPage turns fixed-layout PDFs into clean, reflowable text, so you can read academic papers and long documents comfortably on your phone. No more pinching, zooming, and scrolling sideways across tiny two-column pages. PaperPage is completely free, with no ads.
PDF REFLOW THAT FITS YOUR SCREEN
PaperPage extracts the text from each page and reflows it to your screen width. Two-column layouts are read in the right order, and paragraphs are kept intact. You can start reading as soon as the first page is ready while the rest of the document loads in the background.
Choose how text is extracted:
• Image OCR mode – recognizes text from the page image. Works with scanned PDFs too.
• Text parsing mode – reads the text layer of digital PDFs directly for faster, exact results.
Tables can be shown as text or as cropped images of the original page — whichever works better for your document.
READ YOUR WAY
• Five reading fonts: Inter, Merriweather, Noto Serif, Roboto, and Saira
• Adjustable font size, letter spacing, line height, and margins
• Four themes, from bright white to dark modes for night reading
• Tap to hide the toolbars for distraction-free reading
• Your last reading position is saved automatically
HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES
• Select text to highlight it in one of four colors
• Add a note to any highlight
• See all highlights and notes in one list, filter by color, and jump straight to each passage
• Share a single highlight, or your whole list, to any app
FIND AND NAVIGATE
• Search the full text and step through every match
• Bookmark your place and return to it in one tap
• Drag the progress slider to move anywhere in the document
• Switch to Original page view anytime to see the PDF exactly as it was laid out, with pinch-to-zoom for figures and equations
LISTEN WHILE YOU READ
Read-aloud uses your device's text-to-speech engine, with the current passage highlighted as it plays.
ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY
Keep your PDFs in folders and see your reading progress for each paper at a glance.
OPTIONAL GOOGLE DRIVE BACKUP
Sign in with Google to back up your highlights, notes, bookmarks, and reading progress to your own Google Drive and sync them across devices. PaperPage only asks for access to the files it creates, so it cannot see anything else in your Drive. Your PDF files themselves are never uploaded.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Text extraction and OCR run entirely on your device
• No PaperPage account required — Google sign-in is only needed if you choose Drive backup
• No analytics
• PaperPage has no servers of its own, so your papers stay with you
Good to know: OCR in this version is optimized for English and other Latin-script documents. Results depend on the quality of the original PDF, and complex layouts such as dense tables or equations may not reflow perfectly. For those, Original page view is always one tap away.
Whether you are a student, researcher, or anyone who reads long PDFs on the go, PaperPage makes every page easier to read.

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*Sample paper: Berquet, S.; Grzywacz, N.M. Perceived Complexity as Normalized, Integrated, Localized Shannon Entropy. Entropy 2026, 28, 279. https://doi.org/10.3390/e28030279 — Licensed under CC BY 4.0.