Edit a PDF. Keep it real text.
Change the text that is there, add new text in the font, size and colour you pick, draw, add rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and pictures, move and resize anything, and undo every step. The same engine Chrome uses to show PDFs runs in this tab and writes real PDF objects: text stays selectable and searchable in Acrobat, Preview and Edge, drawings stay sharp at any zoom.
What you can change
- Text that is already there: double-click a line, retype it, change its font, size, bold or colour, or drag it somewhere else.
- New text anywhere on the page, in Sans, Serif or Mono, any size and colour.
- Drawings and shapes: freehand lines, rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows, kept as sharp vectors.
- Pictures: photos are stored as JPEG, logos and screenshots keep every pixel.
- Marks and notes: highlight, underline, strike or squiggle words; add notes any viewer shows.
- Signatures and forms: draw, type or upload a signature, and fill every field.
- Redaction: mark areas by hand, or let the personal data finder mark emails, phone numbers, bank accounts and card numbers; saving takes them out for good.
- Pages: reorder, turn, duplicate, delete, add blank pages or the pages of another PDF.
- Find and replace across every page, as one step you can undo.
How saving works
Save writes a new PDF with every change in it, and writes the whole file anew, so a corrected figure or a deleted line leaves no earlier copy behind for anyone to dig out. A digitally signed file is the exception: its changes are added after the signed version, which keeps the signature valid for what was signed, and the editor says so after the save.
Save flattened turns filled fields and marks into part of the page, so nobody can change them later. The pages can also be saved as PNG or JPG pictures.
What it does not do
- It does not reflow paragraphs: a retyped line stays one line, so a much longer sentence needs a second line added by hand.
- It cannot retype the words on a scan, which are a picture; cover them and add new text, then run OCR PDF.
- Text inside grouped content (a logo, a chart) moves as a block and cannot be retyped.
- Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indic scripts are refused, because no font it carries has their letters yet.
Questions
Can I change the text that is already in the PDF?
Yes. Double-click a line and retype it. When the file's font has every letter you type, the edit stays in that font; when it does not, the line is set in a standard PDF font or a bundled Liberation font of the same family, and a note on screen says which.
Is the old text still hidden in the file after I edit it?
No. Saving writes the whole file anew, so a changed or deleted line leaves no earlier copy behind. The one exception is a digitally signed file: its changes are added after the signed version so the signature stays valid, and the editor tells you so.
Does it work on a scanned PDF?
A scan is a picture of text, so there is nothing to retype. Cover the words with a white rectangle and add new text on top, then run OCR PDF if the file should be searchable. Edit a scanned PDF, in the guides, walks through it.
Which languages can I type?
Every Latin-script language, plus Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indic scripts are not in any font the editor carries yet, so it refuses them with a message rather than write empty boxes.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The editor runs in this tab with the engine Chrome uses to show PDFs. While a file has changes, a recovery copy is kept in this browser only, and closing the file deletes it.