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Edit PDF Text

Cover a figure or a date and type a new one.

Upload the PDF you want to edit

Password-protected PDFs work too

When to edit PDF text

One figure in a quote you already sent is wrong, or the date just needs moving to this month. If you don't have the program that made the file — or the person who does is out — that one character stops the job.

Tap the text you want to change and this tool covers it and writes the new text on top; on a form's blank it can also write without covering anything. It doesn't rewrite the text inside the PDF; it changes what you see.

How to use it

  1. 1Upload the PDF. Enter the password first if it has one.
  2. 2In “Fix text”, tap the text you want to change and it opens in place at its own size. Edit it and press “Add this change”; leave it empty to erase it.
  3. 3To fill in a blank, switch to “Add text” and tap where it should go. It is written with no white box.
  4. 4When everything is added, press “Apply changes and download”.

Common questions

Tapping the text doesn't select anything.
Scanned PDFs, or documents where the text is an image, have no readable text. Drag a box over the spot instead to cover and retype it.
The font doesn't match the original.
A PDF usually embeds only the glyphs it actually uses, so the original font often isn't available to reuse. New text is drawn in a standard font instead. For a number or a date that's barely noticeable; for a whole sentence it shows.
There's a white patch where I edited.
The old text is hidden under a white box. On plain white paper that blends in, but inside a coloured or shaded table it leaves a mark. Draw the box as tightly as you can in that case.
Is the old text removed from the file?
No. It's hidden from view, but the original characters stay inside the file, so dragging over that spot in a viewer can still copy out the old wording. If the previous figure must not be recoverable, run the edited file through PDF → JPG and then JPG → PDF — the text becomes part of the picture and leaves nothing behind. The trade-off is that you can no longer search or copy text in the document.
Can I rewrite a whole paragraph?
It's not a good fit. There's no automatic line wrapping, so text that outgrows the box gets clipped. For substantial changes, edit the source document and export a fresh PDF.
Does this change my original file?
No. The edited version downloads as a separate file and the original on your computer is untouched. Nothing is uploaded to a server either.

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