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Edit PDF

Replace detected text and images or add new content with an advanced visual multi-page PDF editor.

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Advanced PDF editor

Edit PDF content on a visual canvas

Replace detected text or images, add new layers, draw shapes and export the edited copy without uploading the source.

Multi-page

editing

7 tools

canvas controls

Local

processing

Drop a PDF here, or click to choose
Edit visually in your browser. Your document is never uploaded.

About the Edit PDF

Edit PDF is a visual overlay editor for adding text, images, rectangles, ellipses, and freehand drawing to individual pages. Objects can be selected, moved, resized, reordered, rotated, restyled, deleted, and managed with undo and redo.

The Edit existing text mode detects selectable text positions and creates editable replacement overlays. Existing detected images can likewise be selected and replaced. The original source content is covered with a chosen colour and a new object is drawn above it; the tool does not rewrite the original PDF text stream.

Saving draws editor objects onto copied PDF pages, preserving the base page rather than rasterizing the whole document. Detection can miss unusual fonts, vectorized text, masks, inline graphics, or complex PDF image operators, so every edited page must be visually reviewed.

Rendering, detection, image decoding, and editing happen locally. Complex PDFs and many high-resolution overlays can be limited by browser memory, and this is not a redaction or certificate-signing workflow.

Key features

  • Text, image, rectangle, ellipse, and freehand tools
  • Selectable-text detection with cover-and-replace editing
  • Detected-image selection and replacement
  • Move, resize, rotate, opacity, and layer-order controls
  • Font family, size, colour, bold, and italic text settings
  • Shape fill, stroke, and stroke-width settings
  • Undo and redo history
  • Page navigation and zoom

How to use

  1. 1Upload an unlocked PDF and select the page to edit.
  2. 2Choose a tool, then click or draw on the page to add an object.
  3. 3For existing content, choose Edit existing text or select a detected image and create its replacement overlay.
  4. 4Move, resize, style, rotate, and reorder the selected object.
  5. 5Use undo and redo while checking the page at a useful zoom.
  6. 6Repeat on other pages, save the edited copy, and inspect every changed region.

Examples

Correct a visible label
Input: Selectable text label replaced with new Helvetica text over a white cover
Output: Edited PDF with an overlay correction

Zoom in and verify that the cover fully hides the old label.

Add review artwork
Input: One rectangle, one image, and a freehand note on page 3
Output: New PDF with vector and image overlays

Frequently asked questions

Does existing-text editing rewrite the original text object?
No. It covers the detected source bounds and places replacement text above them.
Can every PDF image be detected?
No. Complex masks, vectors, unusual operators, or unsupported image objects may not be selectable.
Is this suitable for redaction?
No. Use Redact PDF when underlying sensitive content must become unrecoverable.
Are edited pages rasterized?
No. The source pages are retained and editor objects are drawn onto them.
Does it support certificate signatures or form schema editing?
No. Use specialized signing and form tools for those workflows.
How much undo history is kept?
The editor retains a bounded recent history rather than an unlimited record.

Continue your workflow

Open a related tool to prepare your files or refine the finished result.