Edit PDF
A PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Rearrange and delete pages, add text and images, cover up what should not be visible, then save, with nothing installed and nothing uploaded.
Open the editor →How it works
- Open one or more PDFs. Every page appears as a tile you can select, rotate, delete or drag into a new position.
- Open a page to edit it: add text, draw with the brush, cover an area with a block, or drop in an image.
- Download the edited PDF. Every change is written into the file you save.
What you can change, and what a PDF will not let you change
PDF was designed as a final format, a fixed description of where every glyph sits on the page, which is why editing one is nothing like editing a Word file. It is worth knowing the boundary before you start, so you are not fighting the format.
What works well is anything you add on top of or around the page. You can reorder, rotate and delete pages, pull several documents into one, drop in an image or a logo, type new text anywhere on the page, draw freehand and cover an area with a solid block. All of it becomes part of the page when you save, and it opens correctly in any reader on any device.
What this editor does not do is retype existing paragraphs in place. There is no cursor you can drop into a sentence that was already in the file so that the rest of the paragraph reflows around your edit; that would mean reconstructing the original layout engine, and the results are usually worse than the problem. When you genuinely need to rewrite body text, the reliable route is PDF to Word, edit there, then Word to PDF on the way back. For a short correction, covering the old text with a block and typing the new version over it is faster and looks cleaner.
The tools on the page
The toolbar is deliberately small. Each tool does one thing, and they combine:
Because everything lives in one grid, a job that normally takes three separate websites takes a single pass: bring in two files, drop the pages you do not want, rotate the sideways scan, cover the bank details, sign the last page and save once. Nothing is re-encoded along the way, so the pages you did not touch come out byte for byte as sharp as they went in.
- Text — click anywhere and type. Size and color are adjustable, and non-Latin alphabets are supported: a Unicode font is embedded when the document needs one, so Cyrillic, Greek and accented characters survive the save instead of turning into empty boxes.
- Brush — freehand drawing for a signature, a checkmark, a circle around a clause or an arrow pointing at the number under discussion. On a touchscreen you draw with a finger or a stylus.
- Block — a filled rectangle for covering an account number, a home address or a salary figure before you forward the file.
- Image — place a photo, a scanned signature, a stamp or a company logo, then move and resize it on the page.
- Page tiles — select one page or many, then rotate, delete or drag to reorder. Add a second PDF and its pages join the same grid; add a JPG or PNG and it becomes a page of its own.
Covering things up, and a warning worth reading
The block tool covers an area with a solid rectangle, and when you save, that rectangle is drawn into the page. For most everyday purposes this is exactly what people need: hiding a salary line before a document circulates internally, masking a phone number in a screenshot, covering a bank account on an invoice that goes out for approval.
It is not, however, redaction in the sense a court or a regulator means. Proper redaction removes the underlying text from the file and rebuilds the page. A drawn rectangle sits on top of it. The covered text is not visible on screen or in print, but it is still present in the file, and anyone who runs a text extractor over the PDF can recover it. This is a well-documented failure mode that has embarrassed law firms and government agencies more than once, and it applies to every general-purpose editor, not just this one.
So treat the block as a convenience, not as a security control. If a page will be published or released under a disclosure obligation, remove the content instead of covering it: delete PDF pages when a whole page is the problem, crop PDF when the sensitive part sits at the edge, or black the area out in an image editor first and rebuild the document with JPG to PDF. For anything with legal consequences, use a certified redaction product that documents what it removed.
Frequently asked questions
Can I edit the text that is already in the PDF?
Not in place. A PDF stores text as positioned glyphs rather than as flowing paragraphs, so there is no cursor to put mid-sentence. For a short fix, cover the old text with a block and type the corrected version over it. For a real rewrite, go out through PDF to Word and come back through the Word to PDF converter.
Do I need to install any software?
No. There is no app, no plugin and no browser extension. The editor is a web page that runs in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS alike.
Is it free? Are there watermarks or a page limit?
It is free, the saved file carries no watermark, and there is no cap on pages or documents. The only real ceiling is your device's memory, since the work is done locally rather than on a server that has to ration itself between users.
Do I need an account?
No. No sign-up, no email, no login. Open the page and start editing.
Is my document uploaded to a server?
No. The file is read by your browser from your disk, edited in memory and saved back to your device. Nothing is transmitted, so no copy exists anywhere else. You can verify that in your browser's network panel, or by going offline once the page has loaded and editing anyway.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Page tiles, rotation, deletion and drawing all work on a touchscreen, and drawing a signature with a finger is easier than with a mouse. Precise placement of small text is more comfortable on a larger screen, and very large documents open faster on a desktop.
What file types can I open?
PDF, plus JPG and PNG images, which are added as pages. That means you can drop photographed pages into the middle of an existing document and save the whole thing as one file. For other formats, convert first with Word to PDF or Excel to PDF.