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Edit PDF text

Change the words already in a PDF, in its own font, or find and replace them. Free, with no account or uploads.

Open a PDF to change its words

Click a line or a paragraph and type: the new words are written in the font the line was written with. Or find a word and replace it everywhere. You can also paste a file with ⌘V or Ctrl+V.

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Stays on your device · up to 300 MB

Off, nothing is kept: closing the tab loses changes that were not downloaded. On, the file and your changes are kept in this browser until you close the file or throw the draft away. Nothing is sent anywhere.

How it works and help

What you can do

  • In the file's own fontClick a line or a paragraph and type. The old letters are taken out of the file and the new ones written with the font, size and colour the line had.
  • Paragraphs flow againLines that belong together change as one paragraph and wrap within its width. Find and replace changes a word in one place or everywhere at once.
  • Read back after every changeA change that would touch the line beside it is not made. A letter the font lacks is set in the closest font the editor has, and the field says so.
  • What it cannot changeA scanned page is a picture, with no words in it to change. Arabic, Hebrew and other scripts whose letters join cannot be retyped, only taken out.
  • Nothing is uploadedThe file is opened and changed on your device. Links, bookmarks, form fields and tags stay as they were.

This is the PDF editor, opened for changing the words that are there. Its other tools (pictures, shapes, highlights, pages, signing) are behind “All tools”.

A little help along the way

Follow the steps below. Every tool and option is explained underneath.

45 s, no sound. On-screen captions describe each step; the same steps are written out here.
  1. Open a PDFDrop a PDF, choose it from your device or paste it. A locked file asks for its password; a damaged one is repaired where possible. The editor opens over the page, with your file in one column.
  2. Choose what to doThe editor asks “What do you want to do?”, before you choose a file or when it opens: Sign it, Fill in a form, Add or change text, Highlight and comment, Arrange pages, or All tools. An answer puts only its tools in the row under the title, with All tools one press away; Tasks in that row asks again, and Skip leaves every tool there. All the tools: the first group adds things to a page (text, box, ellipse, line, arrow, draw, cover, stamp, call-out, measure and a picture), the second marks and comments (highlight, underline, strike out, squiggle, a highlighter pen and notes). Each has a letter on the keyboard, shown when you rest the pointer on it.
  3. Change the words that are thereChoose Change text (E). Every paragraph and every line by itself gets a thin frame. Click one and type: the old words are taken out of the file and the new ones are written in the same font, size and colour, and a paragraph flows again within its width. Enter puts a line's words into the file; in a paragraph Enter is a new line, and Done (or Ctrl+Enter, ⌘ Enter) puts them in. The bar changes size, colour, font and, for a paragraph, how it is set. Drag a frame to move it; Delete takes it out.
  4. Add what you needClick a page with the text tool and type. Drag out shapes and lines. Draw with a mouse, a pen or a finger. A picture lands in the middle of the page you are reading.
  5. Move, resize and turnWith the select tool, drag a thing to move it; guides show when it lines up with the page or with another thing. Pull a handle to resize it, and the round handle above it to turn it. The arrow keys nudge by one point, or ten with Shift.
  6. Change the lookThe second row shows the look of what is selected: font, size, bold, italic and alignment for text; colours and thickness for shapes; how solid it is, set with − and + (each press is 5%).
  7. DownloadPress Download. The file is written, read back and checked, then saved by your browser. You can read the result in the reader, and go on editing afterwards.

Questions people ask

Will the new words match the old font?
Yes, whenever the file's font has the letters: the new words are written with the very font the line was written with, at its size and colour. A letter the font lacks is set in the closest font the editor has, and the field says so.
Is the old text really gone, or only covered?
It is taken out of the page. The old letters leave the file and the new ones are written in their place, so nothing is left underneath to copy or to find.
Can I change the text of a scanned PDF?
No. A scanned page is a picture with no words in it to change. Text in scripts whose letters join, such as Arabic or Hebrew, cannot be retyped either, only taken out.
Can I replace a word everywhere at once?
Yes. Find and replace shows every place first and changes them one at a time or all in one step. A place that cannot be changed is left out, and the page says so.

This page is the PDF editor, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the PDF editor's own page.

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