Change the words of a PDF, and add text, pictures, shapes and drawings. Free, with no account or uploads.
Drop a PDF to edit
Change the words that are there, add text, pictures, shapes and drawings, mark words, place notes and sign, then download the result. You can also paste a file with ⌘V or Ctrl+V.
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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.
What you can do
Change the words that are thereClick a paragraph or a line and type. The old words are taken out of the file and the new ones are written in their own font, size and colour; a paragraph flows again within its width.
Add text, pictures and shapesType anywhere on a page, place pictures, and draw boxes, ellipses, lines, arrows and freehand. Everything can be moved, resized, turned and undone. The pictures a page already has can be moved, resized, cut to a part, exchanged and taken out.
What you see is the fileEvery change is made in the real document and the page is drawn again from it, so the screen shows what you will download.
Checked before you downloadThe text you added is read back from the result, and pages you did not change are compared with the original.
Nothing is uploadedThe file is opened and changed on your device. Links, bookmarks, form fields and tags stay as they were.
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.
1Open 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.
2Pick a toolThe tools are in the row under the title. 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.
3Change 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.
4Add 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.
5Move, 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.
6Change 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 see-through it is.
7DownloadPress 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.
Every option explained
Text
Three font families come with the site: a sans, a serif and a mono, each with bold and italic. They are as wide, letter for letter, as Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. The font is put inside your file, cut down to the letters you used, so the text looks the same everywhere and can be selected and searched. “Your own font” takes a font file from your device (TrueType or OpenType), and “From this device” lists the fonts that are installed, in browsers that can (Chrome and Edge on a computer; the browser asks first). The font is read on your device and is not sent anywhere. A font whose maker does not allow it in documents is not used. Press Enter with a text box selected, or double-click it, to change its words.
Pictures
PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, GIF and BMP. A PNG or JPEG goes into the file as it is, without being saved again; other kinds are kept without loss. See-through parts stay see-through.
Pages
For the pages themselves (M). A list of small pages opens beside them. Press a page to choose it; with Shift, all from the page pressed before; with Ctrl or ⌘, one more. The buttons above the list turn the chosen pages to the left or the right, move them a place earlier or later, copy them, take them out, and add an empty page after them. Drag pages to put them elsewhere, or type the place they are to have. From the keyboard: the arrow keys choose, Alt and an arrow move the chosen pages, Delete takes them out. Links and bookmarks follow their pages. With a page that is taken out go the links and bookmarks that led to it and the form fields that were on it, and the download says how many. A copy of a page has no form fields of its own. “Pages from a PDF” adds every page of another PDF after the chosen pages; a locked one asks for its password, which stays on this device. Its pages come as they look: a form's fields on them become part of the page, and its bookmarks are not brought along. “Save as a file” writes the chosen pages as a PDF of their own and leaves the file in the editor as it is. Every change is one step, and undo takes it back.
Redact
For what must not be in the file at all. Drag over an area, or choose Words and drag across words; type a name and press Mark all to mark it on every page; or mark every e-mail address, phone number or card number. A mark is a red frame and takes nothing out: press it to take it away again. Apply removes what is under every mark, the letters, the pixels of pictures and the drawings, and puts a black box there. Each place is looked at afterwards, and the download warns when a mark was never applied. The download can also leave out the file's details, attached files and scripts.
Recognise text
For scanned pages, whose words are a picture (OCR). A panel opens beside the pages: choose the pages (leave it empty for all) and press Recognise text. Each page is read on your device and its words are laid unseen over it, each where it is seen, so the page can be searched, selected, copied, and redacted by search; it looks just as it did. A page that already has text is left alone unless “Pages that have text too” is on. Choose the language the pages are written in, from 31, and a second one for pages that mix two; the language your browser says you read comes first. The first time a language is read, a few megabytes are loaded from this site and kept for working offline. Stop keeps the pages read so far; one undo takes all of a run away.
Details and bookmarks
For the file as a whole. Details are its title, author, subject and keywords: type them and save; an emptied field takes that detail out. Bookmarks: click a name to choose one and to rename it; the buttons above the list add a bookmark for the page you are reading, move the chosen one up and down, put it beneath the one above, lead it to the page you are reading, or delete it. Page numbers are the numbers the file gives its own pages, which a program shows in its page box: runs such as i, ii, iii and then 1, 2, 3. They are not written on the pages; Numbers and watermarks does that.
Numbers and watermarks
For what goes on many pages at once (Z). A panel opens beside the pages: page numbers, a header or footer of your own, Bates numbers, or a watermark of words or of a picture. Choose how it is written, where it lies and which pages it is for (leave Pages empty for all, or type 2-, 1-3, 7, odd or even), and press Add. Each is then a thing of its own on its page, which can be moved, changed or deleted; one undo takes them all away. Numbers are written as the pages lie then, so put the pages in order first. A watermark is laid over the page and does not protect the file.
Crop and page size
For showing only a part of a page, or making pages another size (Y). A frame lies over the page: drag its edges inwards, move them with the arrow keys, or type how many points to cut off each edge, then press Crop or Enter. The cut can be for this page, for the pages chosen in the list of pages, or for all pages. Cropping hides what is outside the frame and leaves it in the file, where a program can show it again; “Show whole” brings it back here. “Resize” makes pages the size of an A4 or a Letter sheet: what is on them is made smaller or larger to fit, and a page that lies on its side gets a sheet on its side.
Find and replace
For changing words everywhere (F). Type what to look for and press Enter: the words are found through the whole file, across the line breaks of a paragraph too, and each place is shown on its page, with what it says now and what it will say. Replace changes the place that is shown; Replace all changes every place as one step, which one undo takes back. Two buttons tell capitals from small letters and find whole words only. A place that cannot be changed, such as a paragraph that would grow over what is below it, is left as it was, and the bar says why.
Links
For the places of a page that lead somewhere when pressed (J). Each link gets a frame. Choose one to see where it leads and to lead it somewhere else: type a web address, an e-mail address or a page number, and press Enter. Drag a link to move it and its corner to change its size; Delete takes it away. Drag a box on the page for a new link, or use “New link” in the bar. Only web, e-mail and telephone addresses are taken. Where a link leads is not checked, and nothing is sent to it.
Pictures of the page
For the pictures a file already has (I). Each gets a frame. Drag a picture to move it and its corner to change its size; the arrow keys move it, + and − change its size, Delete takes it out. With a picture chosen, the bar turns it by a quarter, cuts it to a part, puts another picture in its place or takes it out. A picture's own data is never saved again. Cutting to a part hides the rest of the picture; the whole picture stays in the file, and “Show it whole” brings it back. A picture that is taken out is no longer in the file. Pictures that are part of a drawing the page reuses are not offered.
Cover
A filled box that hides what is under it. It only covers: the words underneath are still in the file and can be copied out by anyone. Do not use it to hide private information: Redact is the tool that removes.
Change text
For the words a file already has. Typed letters take the look of the letter before them, so a word typed after bold words is bold. The line's own font is used for every letter it has. Files often carry only the letters they use; a letter the font lacks is set in the closest font the editor has, and a note under the line names such letters while you type. While a line is typed, the bar offers its size, its colour and its font: size and colour keep the line's own font; choosing Sans, Serif or Mono sets the whole line in that font of the editor's, and a font of your own can be added and chosen there too. Drag a line's frame to move it, or use the arrow keys on it. A line that is turned on the page is typed straight and written turned. Lines that belong together are one paragraph: click it, type, and press Done (or Ctrl+Enter, ⌘ Enter). Its words flow again within the width it had, with its alignment and line spacing, and links go along with their words; Enter begins a new line. Four buttons set a paragraph to the left, about its middle, to the right or to both edges. A paragraph may grow downwards only into empty room, and the bar says so when there is none; nothing below it is moved. A word the file broke at the end of a line is joined into one, and the field names such words, so that a hyphen that belongs to the word can be typed back. “Paragraphs” in the bar turns all this off and offers every line by itself, which is what to use where the editor takes a list or the rows of a table for running text. A change to a single line stays within its line: a longer line runs on to the right. Text written downwards, or in a script whose letters join (Arabic, Hebrew, the scripts of India), can be taken out but not retyped. The old words are removed from the file, not covered.
Boxes
For the row of boxes a paper form has for a postcode or a number. With the text tool in hand or a text box selected, set Boxes to how many there are, and pull the box's sides to fit the row: the letters are spread out, one in the middle of each box, and no more are taken than there are boxes. Set it back to 0 for ordinary text.
Form fields
A form's own fields are tinted and can be typed in, ticked and chosen from; Tab goes from one to the next, and a line above the page says what must still be filled in. When you download, the form keeps its fields or they become part of the page. A form's scripts are never run, so totals it would work out are yours to fill in.
Keep a draft on this device
Off unless you turn it on. On, the file and your changes are kept in this browser, so closing the tab loses nothing: the next time you open this page, the unfinished file is offered again with its changes and its undo list. It is never sent anywhere. It goes when you close the file, throw it away or turn the switch off. Files over 50 MB are not kept. Do not turn it on at a computer other people use.
Signing, dates and ticks
Sign opens a window where your signature is drawn, typed in a hand of your choice, or taken from a picture with the paper removed; it lands in the middle of the page to be dragged into place. One button adds today's date. The tick tool marks the boxes of a paper form with ticks, crosses or dots, one press each. A signature made here is like ink on paper, not a certificate.
Stamps
A word or two in capitals inside a frame: Approved, Draft, Final, Confidential, Paid, Void, or words of your own. Click to place one, or drag it out; resize and turn it like any shape. Its words are real text in the file. For a stamp that is a picture, such as a company seal, add the picture instead.
Call-outs
Words in a frame with an arrow to what they are about. Drag from the thing you want to point at to where the words should go, then type. The round handle at the arrow's end moves what it points at; the words stay where they are when you do, and the other way round.
Measuring
Drag along something to see how long it is: in millimetres, centimetres, metres, inches, feet or points. A page drawn at full size is measured as it is. For a plan drawn to a scale, type the scale (50 for one to fifty) and the line says the length in the world. The label is part of the line and changes when you pull an end.
Comments
Highlight, underline, strike out and squiggle are laid on words by dragging across them; the highlighter pen marks anything, also on a scan. A note is placed with one press and typed in the list of comments, where every comment of the file can be read, answered and deleted, the ones it came with included. On download they are kept as comments, drawn into the page, or left out.
Signatures
A file that carries digital signatures has a Signatures button. It lists each one: whether it still holds over what it signed, whose certificate made it and who issued that, the time it gives, and what was added to the file after it. Add the certificates of the issuers you trust, and each signature says whether it goes back to one of them.
Sign with a certificate
A digital signature made with your certificate (a .p12 or .pfx file, such as an e-ID, a company certificate or one your own software made) is added at download: turn on “Sign with a certificate”, choose the file, type its password and press Open to see who it names. It can show nowhere, in a box at the foot of a page, or in one of the file's empty places for a signature. It is added last, as an update after the file, so it covers everything, and it is read back before you download. A file that was signed before keeps that signature valid. The certificate and its password are read on this device and are never kept or sent. Programs that check signatures say whether the file changed since; whether to trust the certificate is theirs to say, from the issuers they know. A certificate that has expired, a file locked with a password, and keys other than RSA and elliptic-curve (P-256, P-384, P-521) are not signed with.
Undo and redo
Everything can be undone, back to the file as you opened it, with Ctrl or ⌘ Z, and done again with Ctrl or ⌘ Shift Z. The buttons say what they would undo.
Keyboard
Press ? in the editor, or the keyboard button beside Download, for a sheet of every key. Tools: V select, T text box, B box, O ellipse, L line, A arrow, D draw, C cover (hides, does not remove), X tick or cross, K stamp, Q call-out, R measure. Mark up and comment: H highlight words, U underline words, S strike out words, W squiggle under words, P highlighter pen, N note. Panels and modes: E change the words that are there, I change the pictures that are there, J links, F find and replace, M pages: move, turn, copy, add, take out, Z numbers, headers and watermarks, Y crop and page size, G sign. Changes: Ctrl or ⌘ Z undo, Ctrl or ⌘ Shift Z redo, Ctrl or ⌘ Y redo, Ctrl or ⌘ C copy what is selected, Ctrl or ⌘ X cut what is selected, Ctrl or ⌘ V paste, Ctrl or ⌘ D duplicate what is selected, Ctrl or ⌘ A select everything added to the page. What is selected: Arrows move by one point, Shift Arrows move by ten points, Delete delete, ] bring forward, [ send backward, Enter type in a text box, or open a comment, Tab select the next thing on the page, Shift Tab select the one before, Escape put the tool down, or select nothing. Form fields: Arrows move the field by one point, Shift Arrows move it by ten points, Alt Arrows make it larger or smaller, Shift Enter pick one more field. Reading: Ctrl or ⌘ F search the file, + zoom in, − zoom out, ← → turn the page, when it fits the width, ? show these keys.
Keep what you added editable
Off, the things you added become part of the page, like everything else on it. On, they stay separate things in the file, so this editor can move and change them when you open the file again. Other apps show them as stamps and may let a reader move or delete them.
The check
Before the file is handed to you, the text you added is read back out of it, and pages you did not change are drawn and compared with the original, pixel for pixel. If something does not match, the page says which pages to look at.
Password
The result can be locked with AES-256, with limits on printing, copying and changes and an optional second password that lifts them. A file that came with a password keeps it unless you set a new one.
Leaving the page
The file lives in this tab only. If you close the tab or the file with changes that have not been downloaded, you are asked first.