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A good, privacy respecting and FOSS PDF viewer for Android? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?

If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.

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[–] plague_sapiens@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer I'm using GrapehneOS and the integrated PDF viewer. Can't say of it works flawlessly on other Android OSes, but you could give it a try!

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It works, you can view pdfs but compared to mupdf or mj pdf it's still behind. It may be a tiny bit more secure, so if you are a target who needs to open a pdf from an untrusted source, you may prefer gospdf, everyone else can use something else

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, brutal take but the graphene pdf reader is absolute trash. Takes forever to render pages, if it ever does, is the definition of bare-bones, and I can't uninstall it. It's like the camera - yeah it's nice that it's included, now let me rid my system of it and replace it with something actually well fleshed-out and rich with features.