Edit PDF Text

Edit the text in a PDF, free

Upload a PDF and select Start editing. The editor opens in a new tab with every line of text that can be changed outlined on the page. Click one, type the new words, and download the edited PDF. There is no sign-up, no payment and no watermark on the result.

Edit existing text

1. Choose Edit text and click an outlined line.
2. Type the new text. You can also change its size, colour, font, bold, italic, alignment and position.
3. Select Preview result to see the real output, then Download PDF.

The original words are removed from the PDF and the new ones are written in their place — they are not simply covered with a white box. Pictures, lines and colours behind the text are kept.

Add new text

Choose Add text, click where it should go, and type. Drag the box to move it, resize it with the blue corner, or delete it.

Good to know

• Fonts: the original font is reused when the PDF contains all the letters you type. Many PDFs only embed the letters they already use; then a font with the same letter widths is used where one is available, or a standard font. The result tells you which.
• Longer text: if your new text is longer than the space it had, it is made slightly smaller to fit, and you are told if it still runs over.
• Scanned PDFs: when a page's words are a picture (a scan) or are drawn as shapes, the editor recognises them automatically (OCR), in English or Nepali, and you edit them like any other line. Check the recognised text first — OCR can misread letters. Words drawn as shapes are removed; words in a picture are painted over in the paper's colour and stay inside the picture, so use Redact PDF if they must be gone for good.
• Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked first.
• Nepali and other scripts are written with a font that supports them, with the letters correctly joined.