PDF Editor — Edit PDF Text Online Free

Open your PDF, click any line of text, and change the words, font, size and color right on the page. Preview and download the clean updated file without creating an account. Files are processed over HTTPS and removed under our Security policy.

Yes. Editing, previewing and downloading the clean standard output are available without creating an account. Your file is processed securely and removed under our Security policy.

Absolutely — this is a full online PDF editor, so you edit text directly in the browser without installing Acrobat or any desktop software. It works on Windows, Mac, Chromebook and mobile.

This editor changes text that already exists in the PDF. To fill in form fields or add new text, signatures and checkboxes, use the dedicated Fill PDF Form tool, which is built for interactive and flat PDF forms.

Pick Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough, Draw, Line, Rectangle or Ellipse from the tool row, then draw directly on the page. With the shape selected, use the Color swatch and the Stroke width slider (1-12) to restyle it, and check 'Fill shape' if you want a rectangle or ellipse filled solid instead of just outlined.

White-out paints a white box over content purely for visual cover — it's meant for covering an old value you're about to retype with the Text tool. Redact is for permanently hiding sensitive information like an account or SSN: use it when the goal is to make text unreadable in the exported PDF rather than replace it with new text.

Open the Mark tab, turn on 'Stamp a watermark on every page', then pick a text preset (CONFIDENTIAL, DRAFT, COPY, APPROVED, FINAL, SAMPLE, PAID, DO NOT COPY) or type your own. Use the 9-position grid or the Diagonal button to place it, then fine-tune Opacity, font size and — for the diagonal layout — Rotation, all with dedicated sliders.

In the Pages tab, turn on 'Add page numbers' and customize the format string (using {n} for the page number and {total} for the page count), position and starting number. In the same tab, drag any thumbnail to reorder it, or use the rotate, duplicate, insert-blank and delete buttons per page; tap 'Insert pages from another PDF' to merge pages from a second file at any position.

Scanned pages have no underlying text layer, so run OCR on that page first (the tool shows a notice and a 'Run OCR' button when it detects a scan). Once OCR recognises the text, you can click into it with the Text tool the same way you would on a native digital PDF.

Open the Sign tab and pick the Signature sub-tool, then choose Draw to sign with your mouse or finger, Type to render your name in one of several signature-style fonts, or Upload to place a photo of your handwritten signature. Pick an ink color before placing it, and the signature you use is saved locally so you can reuse it with one click on future documents without redrawing it.

Yes — the Sign tab's Date sub-tool lets you pick any date (or use the Today shortcut), choose from several date formats with a live preview, and set the ink color before placing it. The Stamp sub-tool works the same way for a company seal: type your company name and a status line like APPROVED, PAID or DRAFT, pick a color, and it renders as a round stamp graphic — or switch to Upload mode to place your own scanned stamp image instead.

Select the line of text you're editing (or a new text box you've added) and the panel below shows a Font dropdown (Sans/Helvetica, Serif/Times, or Mono/Courier), a numeric Size field from 4 to 200pt, Bold and Italic toggle buttons, and a color swatch. These controls apply the same way to text you're editing in place and to brand-new text boxes you drop with the Text tool.

The Elements tab includes basic shapes, decorative graphics, nature icons, borders, frames and common currency symbols. The style switcher applies Outline, Black, Flat, Gradient, Lineal color and Hand drawn treatments. The icon Graphics library becomes available after sign-in.

Open the Find tab, type your search term into 'Find in document', and use the arrow buttons to jump between matches highlighted on the page. Type a replacement in 'Replace with' and click Replace to update just the current match or Replace all to fix every occurrence at once — useful for correcting a misspelled name or an old price across a whole document in one pass.

Yes — after placing an image, signature, stamp or date on the current page, an 'Apply to all pages' button appears that copies it to the same position on every page of the document. This is the fastest way to put a consistent letterhead, approval stamp or confidentiality mark across a multi-page PDF without repeating the placement by hand.

Use the Undo and Redo buttons at the top of the Edit tab to step backward and forward through your changes, or click Reset to discard everything and start over on the original file. To find one specific change among many, open the Layers tab, which lists every edit, annotation and added element on the document so you can click through and delete just that one item.

Yes — in the Pages tab, tap multiple page thumbnails to select them (they show a checkmark), then use Extract to pull just those pages into a new file or Delete to remove them all in one action. This is faster than handling pages one at a time, and Clear resets the selection without changing anything.

Add your signature and today's date with the Sign tab, then switch to the Mark tab and turn on a CONFIDENTIAL or DRAFT watermark positioned diagonally at a low opacity (around 15-25%) so it doesn't obscure the text. Turn on page numbers in the Pages tab so a multi-page contract stays in order once printed, and if a section still needs hiding, use the Redact tool before exporting — the combination covers signing, branding and privacy in one pass.

The Sign tab's Text sub-tool is a quick-stamp control for short notes like "Reviewed by..." that sits alongside Signature, Date and Stamp -- it has its own Font dropdown, color swatch, Bold/Italic toggles and a Size slider running from 1 to 6 on a relative scale, then drops onto the page when you tap "Add to page." This is separate from the Edit tab's main Text tool, whose Size field is an exact point size from 4 to 200pt; use the Edit tab when you need a precise font size and the Sign tab's Text option for a fast annotation dropped next to your signature or stamp.

No -- Undo, Redo and Reset only step through text edits, added text boxes, markup annotations and page reordering; the watermark toggle in the Mark tab and the page-number toggle in the Pages tab live outside that history and keep whatever state you left them in. To remove a watermark or page numbers you've already turned on, switch to the Mark or Pages tab and flip the toggle off directly rather than expecting Reset to clear it.

Yes -- select any annotation, added text box, inserted image, signature or stamp on the page, then press Delete or Backspace to remove it instantly, as long as you're not actively typing in a text field. The same page also responds to Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on Mac) for Undo and Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y for Redo from anywhere, without needing to click the Undo/Redo buttons in the Edit tab.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 11 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking PDF gets refused.

Page content is preserved, but anything that depended on the original file being interactive can behave differently — form fields, layers and annotations may be flattened into the page depending on the operation you ran. If you need the fields to stay fillable, do the flattening step last. Keep the untouched original until you have checked the output end to end.

PDF Editor supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Published processing allowances and file limits still apply.

No — PDF Editor runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.