Free Online PDF Editor
Change the text and images already in a PDF, then merge, split, reorder, sign, redact and stamp it — all in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Free, no signup — everything runs in your browser
Drop a PDF here
or click to choose one — drop several to merge them, or images to turn into pages
Nothing is uploaded. Your file is opened inside this page.
One editor instead of twelve single-purpose sites
The usual way to work on a PDF is to find a site that merges, then another that splits, then another that rotates — uploading the same confidential document to three different companies along the way, and re-downloading it between each step.
Everything here happens to one working document, in one place, on your own machine. Merge, then reorder, then sign, then number the pages, then download once.
Editing what is already there
Most “PDF editors” only let you put new things on top of a page. This one reads the page: switch to Edit existing and every line of text becomes clickable, along with every image and logo. Change a name, correct a date, swap a logo, delete a paragraph.
Your edit is set in the document's own typeface, not something that merely resembles it. To draw the page on screen at all, your browser has to load whatever font the PDF carries inside it — so the editor asks for that exact face by name and paints with it. A bold heading comes back bold, a serif line stays serif, and an edited line matches the ones around it.
The other thing to know: a page you genuinely change is flattened to an image, so the words you replaced are destroyed rather than hidden underneath. Pages you leave alone — and lines you merely click to inspect — keep their full searchable text.
What else it does
- Merge — combine any number of PDFs, and drop images in as pages.
- Split and extract — pull selected pages out into their own file.
- Organise — drag to reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete, insert blank pages.
- Add text — five built-in typefaces, any size and colour, placed anywhere.
- Sign — draw a signature and drop it on the page, on a transparent background so it does not sit in a white box.
- Images — stamp a logo, a photo or a scan onto a page.
- Highlight and redact — translucent marker, or a genuine redaction that destroys the text underneath.
- Page numbers — six positions, custom format, start from any page.
- Watermark — text, colour, size, angle and opacity, applied to every page.
- Compress — flatten to images at a quality you choose.
- Convert — export every page as JPG or PNG in a ZIP, or pull the text out as a .txt.
- Metadata — set the title and author stored in the file.
The redaction thing, properly
A PDF has a visual layer and a text layer, and they are separate. A black rectangle is drawn on the visual layer; the words underneath are still sitting in the text layer, and anyone can select them, copy them, or find them with a search. Courts, newspapers and government departments have all published documents this way and had the contents read within hours.
When you place a redaction here, the page it lands on is rendered to pixels before it is written out. The text layer for that page is gone, because the page is no longer text. You lose selectability on that page — which is the honest price of an actual redaction, and the tool warns you before the download rather than after.
Two things it deliberately cannot do
Adding a password. The PDF writer used here has no encryption support. A tool that appeared to protect your file but did not would be worse than no tool at all.
OCR. Reading text out of a scan needs a model too large to send to a browser. Text extraction will tell you plainly when a page has no selectable text instead of quietly returning nothing.
Common questions
- Can I edit the text that is already in the PDF?
- Yes. Switch to “Edit existing” and every line of text on the page becomes clickable — change the words, the size, the colour or the typeface. Existing images and logos can be replaced or removed the same way. The editor reads the real font of whatever you clicked and matches its family, weight and slant, so bold stays bold and italic stays italic; for documents set in Helvetica, Arial or Times that match is exact, and for an unusual embedded face it is the closest of the standard PDF fonts rather than the original. Clicking a line only to look at it changes nothing — a page is only rewritten once you actually alter something.
- Why does an edited page stop being selectable?
- Because that is the only way to actually replace text in a PDF from a browser. Covering a name with a white rectangle leaves the original name in the file, one Ctrl+F away — which is worse than useless if you are editing something private. Flattening the page destroys the old text for real; the words you typed are then drawn back on top as genuine, selectable text.
- Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
- No. The file is opened, edited and written entirely inside this page — the parser and the writer both run in your browser. Nothing is transmitted, which is why it keeps working with your network disconnected and why you can safely put a contract or a bank statement through it.
- How do I merge two PDFs?
- Open the first one, then press “Add files” and choose the rest — or drag several onto the page at once. Their pages are appended in order and you can drag any of them anywhere. Download when the order looks right.
- How do I split a PDF or pull out a few pages?
- Tick the pages you want in the grid, then use “Extract” in the Pages panel. You get a new PDF containing just those pages; the document you are working on is untouched, so you can extract several different sets in a row.
- Does redaction really remove the text?
- Yes, and this is worth understanding because most tools get it wrong. Drawing a black box over words in a PDF hides them visually while leaving the characters in the file, where anyone can select, copy or search them — that is how redacted documents leak. Any page you redact here is flattened to an image on export, so the text genuinely stops existing. The trade-off is that the page is no longer selectable, and we say so before you download.
- Can I open a password-protected PDF?
- Yes — you will be asked for the password, and it is used in this tab only. What the tool cannot do is add a password to the output: the library that writes PDFs here has no encryption support, and pretending otherwise would give you a file you believed was protected when it was not.
- Why is there no scanned-document text recognition?
- OCR needs a model far too large to sensibly ship to a browser. If you extract text and get nothing back, your PDF is a picture of a document rather than a document, and it needs an OCR tool first. The extractor tells you when it finds no selectable text rather than handing you an empty file.
- How much can compression save?
- It depends entirely on what is in the file. Scans and image-heavy documents often drop by half or more; a text-only PDF may get bigger, because compression works by flattening each page to an image. Leave it off unless the file is large, and never use it on something that needs to stay searchable.
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