https://github.com/shardulvs/pdfinspector-android

A DevTools-style PDF element inspector and editor for Android
https://github.com/shardulvs/pdfinspector-android

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A DevTools-style PDF element inspector and editor for Android

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shardulvs/pdfinspector-android
• Owner: shardulvs
• License: mit
• Created: 2026-06-04T14:30:22.000Z (13 days ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2026-06-04T14:59:07.000Z (13 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-06-04T16:21:08.667Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: android, document-editor, jetpack-compose, kotlin, material3, open-source, pdf, pdf-editor, pdf-viewer, pdfbox
• Language: Kotlin
• Size: 924 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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PDF Inspector




  A DevTools-style element inspector and editor for PDFs on Android





  

  

  





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## At a glance

- **DevTools for PDFs**: every page's content stream is parsed into a navigable tree of text blocks, vector paths and images, grouped the way the PDF actually 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, drawn as a clear bordered outline on the canvas.

- **Surgical delete**: remove exactly the element you picked by rewriting just its slice of the content stream, leaving the rest of the page untouched. Full undo and redo.

- **Save a copy, never the original**: your edited PDF is written to a new file through the system file picker, so the source document is left exactly as it was.

- **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, resizes by dragging, 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.

## Install

| Channel | |

|---|---|

| [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/shardulvs/pdfinspector-android/releases/latest) | Signed APK |

## Build from source

Requires **JDK 17** (the project pins Java 17):

```bash

git clone https://github.com/shardulvs/pdfinspector-android.git

cd pdfinspector-android

JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk-17 ./gradlew assembleDebug

```

Output: `app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk`