LuceVoce

Read PDFs

How LuceVoce tidies a PDF into readable text, and how to switch to the real PDF pages with the spoken word lit on them and zoom in.

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LuceVoce tidies a PDF into clean text you can read and listen to comfortably. If you prefer to see the real pages, press PDF pages at the top: the pages appear as they were printed, with the spoken word lit on them.

How the text is tidied

  • Columns are put in reading order.
  • Repeating headers, footers and page numbers are left out.
  • A sentence that runs over to the next page is read as one sentence.
  • Headings are found by their size, and tables are read row by row. See Tables and footnotes.
  • The PDF's own page numbers are used, so Go to finds page 147 as it is printed.

See the real pages

  1. Open the PDF.
  2. Select PDF pages in the top bar. The pages appear one under the other, with the spoken word and its sentence lit on the page.
  3. Select it again to go back to the text.

Everything else works as in the text: the voice, Read from here, Back to the current position, highlights and notes, the chapter bar and Go to.

To choose how every PDF opens, open Settings > Reading > PDF pages and pick Text, Pages, or Remember per book (a book opens the way you last showed it).

Zoom the pages

Windows

Hold Ctrl and turn the mouse wheel, or pinch on a touch screen. Click a word for its menu, or double-click it to read from its sentence.

Mac

Hold ⌘ and scroll, or pinch on the trackpad. Click a word for its menu, or double-click it to read from its sentence.

iPhone and iPad

Pinch to zoom. Tap to play or pause, and press and hold a word for its menu.

The pages zoom from half size to four times, and stay sharp when you zoom in.

Good to know

Related

  • Listen to scanned PDFsHow LuceVoce reads PDF pages that are only pictures with text recognition (OCR), what you need on Windows, and how to turn it off.
  • File formats LuceVoce can readEvery book, document and audiobook format LuceVoce opens, from EPUB, PDF and Kindle to Word, comics and MP3, and what it does with each one.
  • Tables and footnotesHow LuceVoce shows tables as grids and reads them row by row, how to keep tables silent, and how footnote numbers are shown but not read aloud.
  • Search a book and go to a pageHow to find words in the book you are reading and jump to a page number, a Roman numeral page or a chapter.paragraph reference.
  • Show the text in a different wayThe four reading modes in LuceVoce, Normal, Bold word starts, One word at a time and Reveal as it is read, and where to switch between them.

Last updated 13 November 2026