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How to edit a PDF without uploading it
Most online PDF editors send your file to their server. This one doesn't. The page reads the file in your browser, shows each page, and writes the new file on your own device. You can even switch off your internet after the page loads, and it keeps working.
- Open the fileDrop a PDF on the box, or click it to choose one. Drop more files to add their pages.
- Edit the pagePick a tool: Text, White out, Draw, Picture or Sign. Click a page below to edit it.
- DownloadClick Download PDF. You get a new file and the old one stays as it was.
Sign a PDF online
Click Sign and choose one of three ways. Draw your name with a mouse, finger or pen. Type your name and pick a handwriting style. Or upload a photo of your signature on white paper. The white part turns see through, so only the ink sits on the page.
The signature goes on the page as a picture. Drag it onto the line and pull its corner to make it smaller. This is a simple signature, like signing a printout. It is not a digital signature with a certificate, which some banks and courts ask for.
Fill in a PDF form
Some PDF files have real form fields: boxes you can type in and squares you can tick. When a file has them, a Form fields button shows up. Fill in the list there, and the answers go into the fields when you download. Tick "Lock the answers" if nobody should change them later.
Many forms are just a picture of lines with no fields. For those, use the Text tool and click where each answer should go.
What you can and can't change
| Task | Here? | How or why not |
|---|---|---|
| Add text | Yes | Text tool. Pick size and color first. |
| Hide text or a picture | Yes | White out covers it with a white box. The old text is still in the file under the box, so don't use it to hide secrets. |
| Sign | Yes | Draw, type or upload a signature. |
| Reorder, rotate, delete pages | Yes | Use the page list under the editor. |
| Change text that is already there | No | A PDF keeps only the letters each font needs, so new words often can't be drawn in the same font. Cover the old words with White out and type new ones on top. |
| Make the file smaller | No | Good compression has to rebuild every picture. A browser can't do that well yet. |
| Turn it into a Word file | No | Keeping the layout needs a large server program. To copy the words, use PDF to text. |
| Add or remove a password | No | Locked files can't be opened here. Remove the password in the app that made the file. |
| Read scanned pages (OCR) | No | A scan is a photo of a page. Reading its letters needs a separate program. |
Is it safe to edit a PDF here?
Your file never leaves your device, so there is nothing on our server to leak or delete. The page uses two free, open source tools that run in your browser: pdf.js from Mozilla shows the pages, and pdf-lib writes the new file. They load only after you open a file, so the page stays fast until you need them.
White out only covers what is under it. For a contract, a bank statement or anything private, the safest way is to delete the whole page, or print the page and scan it again.
More PDF tools
Each task also has its own page with a simpler screen. All of them work on your device, like this editor.
- Join PDF filesa.pdf + b.pdfPut several files into one, in the order you pick.
- Split a PDF✂ 1 | 2 3Cut a file into parts, or keep only the pages you need.
- PDF to textPDF → .txtCopy the words out of a file as plain text.
- Rotate PDF pages↻ 90°Turn sideways pages and save them that way.
- Sign a PDF✍Draw or type your name, or use a photo of your signature.
- JPG to PDF.jpg → .pdfTurn photos and scans into one file.