Edit the text of a PDF as easily as in Word

Editing is: without an account you can keep up to 5 documents and 200 MB; with an account, up to 500 documents and 2 GB. Downloading, printing, exporting and the AI will come with a Week Pass ($6 for 7 days, no auto-renewal) or Pro ($12 a month or $96 a year, 30 days free). Until the paid plans come, downloading with an account is free.

Not to open and edit a PDF. To download the result, create a free account with your email or in one click with Google: that way only you see the file.

Yes, if the document’s embedded font has the letters you need. If one is missing, the editor picks a similar font and tells you so.

It suggests a new wording of a paragraph: fixes mistakes, shortens, simplifies, makes it more formal, translates it (into English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian or German) or follows your own instruction. The suggestion is written by Anthropic’s Claude model, and only the text of that paragraph is sent. You see it right in the paragraph, check it and apply it like any edit: the font and layout stay, and Ctrl+Z brings the previous text back. The Translate tool translates the whole document: you see each paragraph’s translation beside the original and apply it as one change. It comes with a Week Pass or Pro, which are coming soon.

Documents without an account are deleted after 24 hours of inactivity. An account’s documents stay until you delete them in My documents, and deleted ones can be restored from the trash for 30 days. You can delete the account with all its documents in its settings, and download all your data in one archive first.

Yes, if you know the password: the editor asks for it, removes it and saves the document without it, and never stores the password. The author’s restrictions on changes stay when you enter the password to open, and only the owner password removes them.

Change it — no: a scan is a picture, and we do not lay patches over it. But the text of a scan can be recognized (English or Ukrainian): it becomes an invisible layer under the picture, so the document can be searched and copied from while it looks the same. A scan can also be signed, annotated, have its pages arranged and get a watermark.

Yes. The Redact tool removes the text, parts of images and artwork under the marks from the PDF itself, and the black box only shows where they were. What was redacted cannot be copied or found in the downloaded file. Metadata and attachments are removed with a separate button.

It can be. In the US and Canada, an electronic signature is valid for most documents when the parties agree to sign electronically (the E-SIGN Act, UETA and Canada’s electronic commerce laws). But the picture on the page does not prove who placed it, and some documents need a certificate-based digital signature, a witness or a notary: for those, edit the document here, download it and sign it the way the law or the other party requires.

Any edit makes a digital signature invalid. The editor warns you about it and asks you to confirm before changing anything.

Yes, in the browser, with no app. On a narrow screen the side panels slide in from the side and less frequent actions are in the More menu; for long edits a computer is more comfortable.