Paperdesk PDF Editor

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A fresh space for your PDF.

Open a PDF, add your changes, then download.
PDF contents stay in this browser tab.

Up to 30 MB total · 100 pages · Unencrypted PDFs

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Open a PDF to detect text.

Text may be split into several pieces by the PDF. Edit one piece at a time. Scanned images need OCR.

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Quick guide: Edit PDF text → click a blue text area → type your replacement. Use the right panel to find small text. Select moves added content; the blue corner resizes it. Ctrl/Cmd+Z undoes; Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+Z redoes; Delete removes an object; arrow keys nudge it. PDF page rotation is applied to the download.
How text replacement and export work

This editor detects existing text and adds a background cover plus replacement text. It does not rewrite the original PDF text operators. Replacement fonts and colors are approximate and can be adjusted. Flat backgrounds work best; photos, patterns, overlapping text and complex typography may not match. Longer text does not reflow the surrounding document.

Pages containing replacements or whiteout are exported as new images, so their text is no longer selectable/searchable and their links are removed. This is not a certified secure-redaction tool. Other pages retain original content with flattened added marks, unless you choose Flatten all pages. Export quality is capped at 16 megapixels per page.

Drawn signatures are visual signatures, not certificate-based digital signatures. Encrypted PDFs, interactive forms and certificate-signed PDFs are not supported. Bookmarks, attachments and document-level features are not preserved. No OCR, original-font guarantee or PDF-to-Word conversion. No project autosave: download before closing. PDF libraries load from jsDelivr; this tool does not upload your PDF.

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