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Edit a PDF
Edit a PDF free in your browser: add text, tick boxes, sign, fill in forms, change existing text and redact. No signup, no watermark. We never upload your file.
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What this tool does
Edit PDF opens your PDF in an editor, the way Preview does on a Mac, in any browser. Type anywhere on the page, tick boxes, stamp a date, add a picture or your signature, draw, add shapes, highlight, and cover things up with Whiteout. Real fill-in form fields work as fields: click and type. You can also change the text that is already there, keeping its font and size where that font has the letters you type. Redact takes text and pictures out of the file for good. It is free, with no limit on how many files or pages, no signup and no watermark.
How to edit a PDF
- Choose the PDF, or drop it onto the box above. The editor opens over the page.
- Pick a tool from the toolbar, such as Add text, Tick or Sign, and click the page where it goes.
- Drag anything you added to move it, and use Undo if you change your mind.
- Select Download. If the file has form fields, choose whether they stay fillable.
What happens to your file
We never upload your file. The PDF is opened and edited inside this browser tab, and the edited copy is made there too. We store nothing and remember nothing for your next visit. Your original file is not changed: you download a new, edited copy. A file you opened with a password downloads protected with the same password.
What it cannot do
- Whiteout covers but doesn't remove: the text under it is still in the file and can be copied out. Use Redact for anything that must not be read.
- Redaction doesn't touch the file's metadata, such as its title and author. Check those in your PDF reader's document properties.
- A digitally signed file loses its signature when edited. You are told before you download.
- Edited text does not reflow: a longer line runs wider instead of pushing the paragraph down.
- New text can be in Latin, Cyrillic or Greek letters. Arabic, Hebrew and Indic scripts can't be added, and Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts are not included.
- Pictures can be PNG, JPEG or WebP. iPhone HEIC photos work where the browser can open them, as Safari can; otherwise save the photo as JPEG first.
- Old Adobe XFA forms, the kind that say "Please wait" in other readers, aren't supported, and form calculations don't run.
- It does not add form fields, links or comments, or find and replace text.
- It does not move pages. Use Rotate PDF, Delete pages or Reorder pages for that.
- The file can be up to 200 MB.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. There is no limit on how many files you edit, how many pages they have or how often you come back, no account to create and no watermark on the result. The only limit is the file size: up to 200 MB. The site is paid for by advertising on its pages.
Yes. Choose Edit text, click the line you want to change and retype it. The new words keep the size, colour and position of the old ones, and their font where it has the letters you type, and the old text is replaced in the file, not covered. Paragraphs do not reflow: a longer line simply runs wider.
No. Whiteout covers what is underneath with a block of colour, but the text under it is still in the file, and anyone can copy it out or remove the cover. To take something out of the file for good, use Redact.
Redact removes the text, pictures and drawings under each box, and any form fields there, then blacks the area out. It does not touch the file's metadata, such as its title, author or keywords, so check those in your PDF reader's document properties if they matter.
Any edit breaks a digital signature: the edited copy no longer shows as validly signed. You are told before you download. If the signature matters, ask the sender for an unsigned copy, or keep the signed original alongside your edited one.
No. We never upload your file. The PDF is opened and edited inside this browser tab, and the edited copy is made there too. Nothing is saved for next time, so the editor starts empty on your next visit.
Yes. Enter the password when asked and the edited copy downloads protected with the same password. A file that only restricts editing opens without one; your edited copy no longer carries those restrictions.