1Upload the PDF documents you want to work on; the file opens on an editable canvas in your browser with nothing installed.
2Add or edit text, insert images and shapes, highlight, white out and fill in fields — every change lands on a working copy, never on your upload.
3Preview the result at full size before you commit to it.
4Export back to PDF; the pages you did not touch are passed through exactly as they arrived.
PDF Editor FAQ
How does PDF Editor let me edit without installing anything?
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Concretely, the page is rendered for display while the underlying object graph is edited, so your changes land in the real document and text stays selectable rather than being burned into a picture of a page. The editing surface is the browser, so there is nothing to install and no licence to hold.
What can I actually change?
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Add and edit text, insert images and shapes, draw, highlight, and white out anything that should not be there — and fill in form fields from the same view. Every change lands on a working copy, so the file you uploaded is never modified in place.
Does the file format limit what the editor can do?
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It does. PDF fixes the page: fonts, vectors, raster images and text coordinates are frozen so every reader sees identical layout. What the format can represent bounds what any editor can preserve, here or on the desktop.
Anything specific to PDF in the editor?
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Yes — a PDF is an object graph, not a page image, so text stays selectable and vectors stay sharp no matter what happens to the raster content inside it. Worth knowing before you export over your only copy.
Is anything lost when I export?
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Nothing structural. Pages you did not touch are passed through exactly as they arrived, so their text stays selectable and their vector artwork stays sharp; only the regions you actually edited are rewritten.
Is my file uploaded, or does editing happen locally?
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Editing happens in your browser; the file goes to our workers only for the operations that genuinely need server-side processing, and it is deleted shortly afterwards.
What can I upload to PDF Editor?
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Any standard PDF, including ones produced by a scanner, by a word processor or by a print driver. Files with an owner password that only restricts editing are handled; files that need a user password to open are not, and we do not attempt to break encryption.
Is there a file size limit on PDF Editor?
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Yes: free accounts process documents up to 25 MB each, which covers most reports and contracts but not a long scanned document at 600 DPI; Ghostscript and qpdf do the work. Scanned PDFs are the usual thing that exceeds it, and compressing the document first is normally enough to bring it back under.
Will PDF Editor lower the quality of my PDF documents?
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Text and vector artwork are objects rather than pixels, so they stay perfectly sharp at any zoom no matter what happens. Only the embedded raster images can degrade, and only if the operation you chose resamples them.
Can I run PDF Editor on several PDF documents at once?
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Yes — upload the set and they process in parallel under one set of settings, which is the point of doing a document workflow here rather than clicking through a desktop reader.
Do bookmarks, links and form fields survive?
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Outlines, internal links and annotations are preserved wherever the operation allows it. Digital signatures are the exception: any change to the file necessarily invalidates a signature, because that is precisely what a signature is for.
Does PDF Editor cost anything?
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No. PDF Editor is free without an account, and nothing is stamped onto the pages. Uploaded documents are deleted from the workers shortly after the job completes.
