Edit PDF text
Change the words already in the document, not just add new ones.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDFs here
or pick them from your device
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
- 1
Add your file
Add the PDF with the text you need to change. This works on text that is really text — if you cannot select it in a reader, run OCR first.
- 2
Set it up the way you want
Pick the text you want to replace and type the new wording. Keep it a similar length: a PDF has no reflow, so a much longer replacement has nowhere to go.
- 3
Download the result
Download the corrected file. The change is written into the page itself, not layered on top.
Questions about Edit PDF text
- Why can I not rewrite a whole paragraph?
- Because a PDF is not a word processor. It stores each piece of text at a fixed position with no notion of paragraphs, so nothing reflows around an edit. This is right for fixing a date, a price or a misspelled name, and wrong for rewriting a page — for that, convert to Word.
- Will the font match?
- It reuses the font already embedded in the document where it can. If the original font does not contain a character you typed — an accented letter it was subset without — that character cannot be drawn with it, and the tool will tell you rather than substituting silently.
- Is my document uploaded?
- No. The edit is applied without transmitting the document and saved straight back to you.