OpenDocument Reader


OpenDocument Reader, formerly known as OpenOffice Document Reader, allows you to read your ODF documents wherever you are. In the bus on your way to school? No problem! With OpenDocument Reader you can read and search through your documents in a very clean and simple way. Available for Android and Google Drive.

OpenDocument Reader is...
  • simple
  • fast
  • clean
  • and well integrated!

“ODF” is the format used by office suites like OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Both text documents (.odt) and spreadsheets (.ods) are supported, including support for formatting and embedded images. Password-protected documents are no problem either.

For the time being, OpenDocument Reader does NOT support presentations (.odp files), nor does it support editing your documents. These features may or may not become available at some point in the future.

This app is open-source. We are not affiliated with OpenOffice, LibreOffice or similar.

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17 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 19, 2011 at 7:34 AM

    Why no editing!!!!!!!!

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  2. TomTascheJuly 19, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    @ryguy: Because it's only a reader for now. ;)

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  3. BobJuly 23, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    I need a app developed for a project I am working on. Do you develop apps for other people. Please contact me at [email protected]

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  4. TaylorAugust 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM

    How may we donate to increase the development of this app, especially editing functionality?

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  5. TomTascheAugust 7, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    Hello Taylor,

    Donations appreciated via PayPal at [email protected]. :)

    Thank you very much
    Tom

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  6. KOMALAugust 9, 2011 at 9:28 PM

    Please tell me which file type dis app support coz everytym wen i try to open ma doc file its not showing in ny of d folders...n d same file which m tryin to open in dis app is openin in othr reader app..please solve ma prblm asap coz to open d doc file in dis app is vry imp. for me

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  7. TomTascheAugust 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM

    odt and ods. That's it for now. ;)

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  8. KOMALAugust 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Thanx thomas....but how i ll convert ma doc file in odt or ods?? Or in wich software i cn make odt or ods file????

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  9. TomTascheAugust 10, 2011 at 4:26 PM

    http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

    or

    http://de.openoffice.org/

    ;)

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  10. finalAugust 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM

    I cannot read Japanese document. multibyte character set cannot be displayed?

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  11. TomTascheAugust 26, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    I've never tried a Japanese document, sorry. Feel free to mail me one and I'll try it...

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  12. finalSeptember 9, 2011 at 4:46 PM

    Japanese language has some tens of thousand characters.
    (Many Asian languages have also.)

    I heard that each letters of Japanese language are denoted by two or three bytes of UTF-8 encoding system.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

    Up to now I could not read my ODF files by OpenOffice Document Reader.
    I think because OpenOffice Document Reader interpret one Japanese letter three byte code as three Ascii characters.

    Please fix this multibyte language problem of OpenOffice Document Reader. I will aprreciate your great work.

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  13. TomTascheSeptember 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    final, we're currently looking into rewriting the app. Maybe this will fix your problem too. If it doesn't fix it simply comment here again. ;)

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011 at 4:31 AM

    Do you have any intentions of either continuing this project to include document editing and creation, or even porting LibreOffice to the Android platform? I want to ditch my laptop, and use only my android phone, mirroring via HDMI and using BT keyboard and mouse... BUT, I am a grad student, and no word processing app for Android is capable of APA format (hanging indents, page breaks, page headings and numbering, etc. Unless you know of one? acarya(dot)mjr(at)gmail(dot)com

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  15. TomTascheSeptember 18, 2011 at 6:38 PM

    Alternatives to OpenOffice Document Reader are:
    - https://market.android.com/details?id=de.joergjahnke.documentviewer.android.free&feature=search_result
    - https://market.android.com/details?id=org.webodf&feature=search_result

    The latter is probably the better alternative.

    Let me know how you like them.

    Also, we're thinking about improving OpenOffice Document Reader. However, we're pretty busy (we're students, too)...

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  16. BravehearthMarch 4, 2012 at 3:55 PM

    It's very a program good

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  17. NiSMarch 18, 2012 at 11:21 PM

    Des not handle non ascii chars (french accents)

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