# Edit text in a PDF online: free PDF text editor — Edit My PDF > Edit My PDF is a free PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Click any heading, line or paragraph and retype it in the page's own font, size, colour and spacing. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed. Canonical: https://editmypdf.dev/ Click a line, retype it, download. The edit is set in the page's own font, at its own size and spacing, and the rest of the page stands exactly as it was. Your file never leaves your device. [Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/) [See how it works](https://editmypdf.dev/how-it-works/) - No upload - No account - No watermark - No file size limit - [Open source](https://github.com/vr-patel/editmypdf) 1. **Open**: Drop a PDF. It is read in a worker on your machine. 2. **Click and type**: Any heading, line or paragraph opens in its own font. 3. **Download**: A new PDF with your words as real text. ## An editor for the page itself, not a layer on top of it. Most "edit PDF" tools put new text over the old. Edit My PDF reads the page's own glyphs, fonts and spacing and lets you change them in place. **Edit in place** ### Retype a line. *The page stands.* Any heading, line or paragraph opens for editing where it sits, in the font the page embeds, at its size, colour, letter spacing and word spacing. - A paragraph keeps the page's line breaks, baselines and indents until you edit it. - From the first edit on, the text flows again inside the paragraph's own width. - The original words are hidden under the edit and taken out of the page on download. [How the fit is done](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/exactly-as-the-page-prints-it/) **Mixed faces** ### Bold, italic and regular, *one block.* A paragraph with a bold lead-in or an italic title is one editable block made of styled spans. Typing continues in whatever face the caret is in. - Spans carry their family, weight, style, size, colour and PDF font name. - Undo moves through spans, not through whatever the browser would do to the DOM. - Each face is embedded separately on export. [How the span editor works](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/mixed-face-paragraphs/) **Export** ### Downloads are *real text*, not pictures. On export the original strings under your edit are removed from the page's content stream and your words are written as text in a subset of the page's own font. - Each removed string is replaced by an equal advance, so nothing else on the page moves. - Only the glyphs your edit uses are embedded. - The result is searchable, selectable and sharp at any zoom. [How export works](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/exporting-real-text/) **Annotate** ### And everything you'd expect *on top.* Draw, mark, sign and comment. Every mark is written into the PDF as vector or image content, positioned exactly where you put it. - Pencil with seven brush styles, lines and arrows, more than seventy shapes with fill and stroke. - Text boxes in Helvetica, Times or Courier with size, colour, bold, italic and alignment. - Emoji, and a signature drawn by hand or typed in a script face. **Every document at its own link**: Keep several open in tabs. A refresh brings each one back with its edits. **Zoom, fit and rotate**: Pinch or scroll to zoom, fit to width or height, rotate the page. **Undo everything**: Every edit and every mark is undoable, including text inside the page. ## Made for the small fixes that used to mean re-exporting the document. When the source file is gone, or was never yours, the PDF is the document. Edit My PDF lets you change it without rebuilding it. [### Fix a typo in a PDF Click the word, retype it, download. The line keeps its font and spacing and nothing else on the page moves. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/)[### Change a date or a name on a contract Edit the line where it sits. The original words are removed from the file, not covered up. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/)[### Update a price in a quote or invoice Figures in a table cell are reachable as text, so a number changes without redrawing the table. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/)[### Correct a figure in a report Retype one number in a paragraph and the paragraph reflows inside its own column. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/)[### Fill in a form by typing on the page Place a text box in Helvetica, Times or Courier anywhere, or type straight into a printed line. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/)[### Sign and send it back Draw a signature or type one in a script face, then download a PDF with nothing uploaded. Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/) ### Edit PDF text online, free, without uploading Edit My PDF is a free online PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. You can edit the text already in a PDF, change words, numbers and dates in place, and download a new PDF, with no upload, no account and no watermark. Because nothing is sent to a server, there is no file size limit beyond your browser's memory and no daily task counter. ### The PDF's own font, not a look-alike Most PDF editors replace the text you retype with a standard typeface or the closest match from a font library. Edit My PDF edits in the font the PDF embeds, keeps its letter and word spacing, and writes the result back as real text in a subset of that font, so the edited PDF stays searchable and prints exactly as it looks on screen. ## Nothing moves when you click. *That took work.* The fonts a PDF embeds have no space glyph, so a browser draws every space from a fallback font and the line comes out narrower than it prints. Edit My PDF measures each run in the page's face and fits its spacing to the width the page drew. - **0.02 pt**: Largest drift measured on a re-opened export - **11**: PDFs from different producers in the fidelity test set - **318–348**: Units an embedded space takes; the fallback's is 250 [Read how the fit is done](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/exactly-as-the-page-prints-it/) ## Your document *never leaves your device.* There is no server. The PDF is read, edited and rewritten inside your browser tab, and the only network requests are for the app's own files. - **No upload**: The code has no endpoint to send a file to. - **No account**: Nothing to sign up for and nothing logged. - **Nothing beside your document**: The editor loads no analytics and no third-party script; the site's pages count visits only if you agree. - **Stored on this device**: IndexedDB keeps your documents between visits. Clear site data to remove them. [What is stored, and where](https://editmypdf.dev/privacy/) **Check it yourself:** open your browser's developer tools, choose Network, then edit a PDF. Only the app's own files appear. ## The only one that edits the page's text *without uploading it.* Twelve PDF editors, the same questions, every fact checked November 2026 against the vendor's own pages. - **Runs in your browser**: Most web editors upload your file to their servers first. - **Keeps the page's own font**: Retyped text stays in the embedded face, not a substitute. - **Free, with no limits**: No task counter, watermark or file size cap, because there are no tiers. - **Honest about the rest**: Where another tool is the better choice, its page says so. [All twelve comparisons](https://editmypdf.dev/compare/) Three facts about each editor: whether it runs in your browser, edits existing text and keeps the page's font | Tool | In your browser | Edits existing text | Keeps the font | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Edit My PDF | Runs in your browser | Edits the text already on the page | Keeps the page's original font | | [iLovePDF](https://editmypdf.dev/compare/ilovepdf/) | Uploads your file to their servers | Edits the text already on the page | Not stated whether the font is kept | | [Smallpdf](https://editmypdf.dev/compare/smallpdf/) | Uploads your file to their servers | Edits the text already on the page | Substitutes the font | | [Adobe Acrobat online](https://editmypdf.dev/compare/adobe-acrobat-online/) | Uploads your file to their servers | Edits the text already on the page | Keeps the font partly | | [Sejda](https://editmypdf.dev/compare/sejda/) | Uploads your file to their servers | Edits the text already on the page | Keeps the font partly | ## Engineering notes, not announcements. [28 October 2026 · 4 min read ### Exporting edits as real text, in the page's own font How Edit My PDF removes the original strings from a page's content stream, embeds a subset of the font pdf.js decoded, and writes your edit as positioned text rather than a picture. [export] [fonts] [pdf-lib]Read](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/exporting-real-text/)[21 October 2026 · 3 min read ### What the editor leaves alone Covered text, tables, Type 3 fonts, form XObjects, phantom spaces and the lines you did not touch: the deliberate limits of editing a PDF in place. [limits] [design]Read](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/what-the-editor-leaves-alone/)[14 October 2026 · 4 min read ### Editing a paragraph that mixes bold, italic and regular as one block A textarea holds one font. A paragraph with a bold lead-in needs a contentEditable editor that owns its DOM, maps every edit into styled spans and keeps the page's line layout. [editor] [fonts]Read](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/mixed-face-paragraphs/) [All posts](https://editmypdf.dev/blog/) ## The short version. ### No. The file is read by pdf.js inside a web worker in your browser, edited there, and written back with pdf-lib in the same tab. The only network requests the app makes are for its own code, fonts and emoji images. There is no account. Google Analytics counts visits to the site's pages only if you agree in the notice, and it never runs on the editor pages, so no script runs beside your document and no server ever sees it. See the [privacy page](https://editmypdf.dev/privacy/) for exactly what is stored and where. ### Yes. In the select tool, click a heading, a line or a whole paragraph and type. The text opens in the font the page embeds, at its size, colour, letter spacing and word spacing, and a paragraph wraps inside its own column. The original words are hidden under the edit while you work and taken out of the page when you download. ### Yes. There is no account, no daily task counter, no watermark and no file size limit other than what your browser can hold in memory. ### Real text, in the page's own font. On export, Edit My PDF removes the original strings under your edit from the page's content stream, embeds a subset of the font pdf.js decoded, and writes your words as text positioned exactly where the editor showed them. If a face cannot be embedded (a Type 3 font, or a font the page did not embed) or you typed a character the font has no glyph for, that one edit is painted as an image instead so the page still looks right. [All questions](https://editmypdf.dev/faq/) ## Open a PDF and click a line. Free, in your browser, with nothing to install and nothing to upload. [Open the editor](https://editmypdf.dev/app/) [How it works](https://editmypdf.dev/how-it-works/) --- Markdown version of https://editmypdf.dev/. 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