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From a working draft to your finished copy

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    Open your PDF

    Choose a file from your device or try the three-page sample.

  2. 02

    Make your additions

    Add text, images or markups. Select any addition to move, resize, rotate or style it.

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    Save your copy

    Save the edited PDF, review it and download it. Go back to revise at any time in this session.

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Free online PDF editor: edit text, annotate, sign and redact

i2PDF lets you edit existing text in supported PDFs, add text and images, annotate pages, insert signatures and watermarks, and permanently redact sensitive information from the finished PDF. Work directly in your browser without an account or software installation. This editor processes your document on your device without uploading it. Download a finished PDF, or save an editable project to continue later.

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How to edit a PDF

Practical ways to use this tool

Students

Add notes to study PDFs

Highlight readings, insert explanations and arrange pages for revision. Save an editing project when you want to continue working later.

Office work

Modify PDF text and forms

Correct supported selectable text, fill existing fields or create a form. Review the exported PDF before distributing it.

Teams

Review and prepare a PDF

Add comments, signatures and visible labels. Use Redact for private details, then share the finished PDF rather than the editable project.

Features and controls

Edit words and paragraphs

Edit paragraphs by default, switch to lines, or draw a custom text area.

Text editing, selection and layout

Choose Edit text. Paragraph is selected by default; choose Line in Settings when you want to edit a smaller text region. Hovering reveals a thin outline and faint blue fill, while idle text stays clear. Click or tap a region to start typing. Opening text without changing it does not create a saved edit. Automatic paragraph grouping uses the document's text structure, spacing and styles, so review unusual columns, tables and paragraph boundaries.

Turn on Multiple select in Settings, or Shift-click, to select several text regions for shared formatting. Choose Edit as Paragraph to combine compatible regions. With Multiple select off, drag a rectangle around text using a mouse or pen to open a custom paragraph automatically. With Multiple select on, the rectangle selects separate regions instead. On a touchscreen, use Multiple select and tap the regions, then choose Edit as Paragraph; touch dragging remains available for scrolling.

Select words to format only those words, or use the floating Font menu to format the region. It contains font, bold, italic, color, subscript, superscript, a size slider with a number field, and alignment. In Settings, open Layout for letter spacing, line spacing, text fitting and width. Choose Keep text size, Wrap within width or Shrink to fit width as appropriate. Other page content stays in place; paragraphs do not push nearby content or flow onto another page.

Click an empty part of the page to keep the current edit, or press Ctrl/Cmd+Enter while typing. Press Escape while typing to cancel the current uncommitted edit. Text changes lists applied text edits and lets you revisit or restore them; Undo and Redo are also available. Original shows the source view for comparison. These changes remain in the editing session until you download a PDF or save a project.

Match styles and act on text

Preview fonts, reuse formatting and review text replacements in Find & Act.

Fonts, Format Painter and search

The editor supports English, Arabic and mixed-direction text. It reuses an embedded document font when the browser and PDF writer can use it reliably; otherwise it uses a compatible substitute and adjusts its initial size when needed to fit the source width. Some embedded fonts contain only the original characters, so they may not support newly typed text. Exact appearance and spacing depend on the available font. With text selected, choose Match font below Layout to preview your text in available fonts. Fonts that cannot render the selected text reliably are disabled. Review the PDF preview after changing fonts.

Format Painter copies formatting to another existing-text region. Text Styles saves named styles for reuse within the document, and saved projects retain those styles for later sessions. Layout groups the spacing, text fitting and width controls; Match font remains available below it when Layout is collapsed.

Open Find & Act in the toolbar. Highlight is the initial action; you can also choose underline, strikeout, wavy underline or redaction. Search selectable document text, review the matches and apply the action only to the selected results. Choose Replace explicitly to enter replacement text, search the Current page or Whole document, and review before-and-after text before applying selected replacements. Replace works on supported editable text, including existing text edits; image-only text and newly inserted objects are not searched. Search-based redaction adds marks; Start applies the removal when generating your download.

Add, annotate and sign

Place text, images, signatures, stamps and review marks on your PDF.

Insertion and review tools

Use Text to type directly on the page and change font, size, bold, italic, color and opacity in its floating toolbar. Insert a logo or photograph, then crop it with handles or percentage values, flip horizontally or vertically, or replace it while retaining its position and dimensions. The original image remains in the project. These controls edit inserted images, not images embedded in the original PDF.

Draw freehand with the pencil, or add rectangles, circles, lines, arrows, polylines and polygons. Set border and fill colors separately, adjust line width and opacity, and attach comments to supported markups. Highlight a passage, underline it, strike it out or add a wavy underline. Sticky notes provide space for review comments without covering the page. Notes, markers and supported comments are saved as PDF annotations in ordinary exports.

Draw a signature with a mouse or touch, type a name in a signature font, or insert a PNG or JPEG signature image. Adjust the color and size, then move or rotate the signature into position. You can also insert a date in different formats. Drawn signatures can be downloaded as transparent images. These features place a visible electronic signature on the page; they do not create a certificate-based digital signature.

Stamp offers preset wording and custom text, a live preview, optional outline, adjustable color and opacity, and diagonal or horizontal placement. Stamps stay editable in the project and export as selectable text unless Render as image is enabled. Apply to pages repeats stamps or watermarks across selected pages.

Fill and edit existing PDF forms

Recognize common existing fields automatically, change values and properties, or add new controls.

Form filling and authoring

Click a field on the page to type directly, choose an option or toggle a checkbox. Use the floating Move field button to reposition it, or drag its resize handle. Enter finishes a single-line edit; Escape cancels the current typed change. Read-only fields stay locked until you clear Read only in Settings. Forms recognizes ordinary text and multiline fields, checkboxes, radio groups, dropdowns and list boxes. Select a field to edit its value, name, tooltip, required/read-only state, options, colors or size. Fill form provides an interactive filling view; Apply values keeps the answers. Leaving this view without applying discards draft answers. Fields with the same name share a value. Empty fields use a light-blue editing highlight instead of showing internal field IDs. The floating Font menu changes family, size, bold, italic, text color and alignment; new and recognized fields start with black text. The blue editing highlight is not printed into the exported PDF. Recognized fields retain their original font size, weight and left, center or right alignment. Standard font families use locally available compatible fonts when the PDF font is unavailable.

Supported fields export as interactive PDF controls. Complex or unsupported structures, including XFA, password fields, digital-signature fields and rotated widgets, are preserved instead of being rebuilt as ordinary controls. Page rearrangement is unavailable if it would break these structures. Editing a document does not preserve the validity of previous digital signatures. Ordinary fields can also be recovered from page annotations when a split PDF has lost its top-level form tree.

Build editable tables, including Arabic

Paste cells from Excel, resize columns, merge cells and style the table.

Cells, layout and PDF output

Choose Table, set rows and columns, then type or paste tab-separated cells from Excel or Sheets. Shift-click a second cell to select a range. Merge or unmerge cells; apply bold or a background to selected cells; set text, border and header colors. Drag column dividers, use their arrow keys or adjust the column-width slider. Choose automatic, left-to-right or right-to-left direction. Arabic letters are shaped in the preview and PDF.

Use up to 30 rows, 12 columns and 240 cells. The table grows vertically to fit content when possible; reduce text or rows if it cannot fit on the page. Reopen it with the floating Edit table button or a double-click. Tables remain editable in saved projects. The final PDF contains selectable text and vector borders, not spreadsheet cells or an embedded workbook.

Link content and bookmark chapters

Open a website, email address or another PDF page from an element or drawn area.

Links and chapter navigation

Select an inserted element and choose Link, or choose Link with no selection and draw a rectangle over existing text or an area. Page destinations follow their target page when you reorder it. A link to a deleted destination is omitted from the export; Undo restores it.

Bookmarks lets you add chapter titles for the current page or another page, rename them, assign subchapter levels or remove them. Supported existing links and page bookmarks are recognized on upload. Unchanged source links appear in Original links instead of being counted as new page edits. Text changes in Edit text lists your applied text edits separately. The finished PDF includes supported links and the chapter outline, and projects retain them for later editing.

Arrange and repeat your additions

Align groups and apply changes to selected pages with optional linking.

Groups, alignment and page copies

Select several added elements with Multi-select, Shift-click or a selection rectangle; Ctrl/Cmd+A selects additions on the current page. Group elements to move, resize or rotate them together, then ungroup when needed. Align edges or centers relative to the selection or page, and distribute elements horizontally or vertically. Duplicate, delete, bring forward or send backward to control the arrangement. Text-region multiple selection is available separately from Edit Text.

Apply to pages repeats selected additions on all pages, odd pages, even pages or a custom page range, with an option to skip the cover. Choose proportional placement for different page sizes or exact positioning. Link the copies when later appearance and position changes should update them together. Unlink a copy to edit it independently. This feature applies to added elements, such as text, signatures, images and stamps; it does not replace existing text across pages.

Use Pages or a thumbnail menu to insert a blank page matching the current size, duplicate or delete a page, move it earlier or later, or insert pages from another PDF. Drag thumbnails to reorder them. Content and edits stay with their page; Undo and Redo include page actions. At least one page must remain, and combined documents must fit the file and page limits. Unsupported form structures can prevent page rearrangement.

Save your work and continue later

Download an editable project, or finish your work as a PDF.

Projects, navigation and undo

Save project downloads an .i2pdf file containing source pages, edits, images, forms, tables, links, bookmarks, groups, linked copies and text styles. Resume it from the upload page. Saving is explicit; projects are not stored online and undo history is not included. Projects retain source pages, including deleted pages and content marked for redaction; share the finished PDF instead of the project when privacy matters.

Thumbnails reflect edits. Edit Text enlarges pages up to 180% while keeping the width inside the workspace, and restores the previous zoom when you leave. Fit, manual zoom and Focus mode help with wide or cropped pages. Undo and Redo remain available for document changes.

My Library saves selected logos, signatures, stamps, tables or grouped designs in this browser for another document. Name the selection and save it, then use the searchable library to insert it. It holds up to 40 items and 40 MB. Clearing site data removes the library; other browsers and devices have separate collections. Form fields, redactions and link areas are excluded, and document-specific links are removed from saved elements.

Redact and review the final copy

Use true redaction for removal and inspect the exported result.

Redaction and editing limitations

Use Redact to mark account numbers, personal details or other sensitive content. Choose a redaction color and adjust each area before selecting Start. The finished copy removes marked text, image pixels and drawings so the covered information cannot be recovered by searching or selecting text. Objects touching a mark may be removed in full. Added text or stamps above a redaction remain visible. Ordinary shapes do not remove underlying content. Review every occurrence and share the finished redacted PDF.

Open an unencrypted PDF up to 300 MB and 750 pages; performance depends on your device. Direct text editing is disabled for scans, hidden OCR layers and unsupported text structures. Use PDF OCR separately for image-only text; you can still add elements to scanned pages. Normal exports preserve selectable text and vector shapes where supported. Redaction removes underlying source structures, metadata and attachments. Supported form fields and new links outside marks can remain interactive; fields and links touching a mark are removed. Complex redacted pages may become images; the download screen identifies them. Preview your finished copy before sharing.

Supported files & processing

Input
PDF
Output
PDF

Open one PDF up to 300 MB and 750 source pages. Protected files need an unlocked copy unless this tool explicitly offers password entry. Large or complex pages can require more memory or reach processing limits even when the file is within these limits.

Processing takes place on your device without uploading the document. Download your result before closing the page; keep the original separately.

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FAQ

Good to know.

What you can edit, how saving works, and where your file stays.

On your device
Can I use this online PDF editor for scanned documents?

You can add text, images, notes and other elements over a scan. Direct editing of existing words requires a supported, reliable selectable-text layer. Use PDF OCR to recover text from a scan; adding a text box does not turn the original image into editable words.

Can I edit existing PDF words and whole paragraphs?

Yes, on supported pages with selectable text. Edit text starts with Paragraph selected; choose Line in Settings for smaller regions. With Multiple select off, use a mouse or pen to drag a custom text area. Turn on Multiple select, or Shift-click, to select regions for shared formatting or Edit as Paragraph. On touchscreens, tap regions with Multiple select enabled. Click empty page space to keep an edit, or press Escape while typing to cancel it. Automatic grouping can need adjustment. Scans, hidden OCR layers and unsupported text structures cannot be edited directly; you can still add text on top.

Can I fill and modify an existing PDF form?

Common text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and list boxes are recognized automatically. Click a field to enter its value; use the floating Font menu for supported text formatting. Read-only fields stay locked unless you enable their editing in Settings, including the page-level option. Supported original font sizing and alignment are retained. Complex XFA and digital-signature fields are not rebuilt as ordinary editable controls.

Can I crop or replace an image I added?

Use Text to type directly on the page and change font, size, bold, italic, color and opacity in its floating toolbar. Insert a logo or photograph, then crop it with handles or percentage values, flip horizontally or vertically, or replace it while retaining its position and dimensions. The original image remains in the project. These controls edit inserted images, not images embedded in the original PDF.

Can I rearrange pages and repeat elements across pages?

Thumbnail menus let you insert blank pages, duplicate, delete, reorder or insert pages from another PDF. Apply to pages repeats added elements on all, odd, even or selected pages; linked copies update together until unlinked. Undo and Redo cover these edits. Page actions may be restricted when an unsupported form structure would be damaged.

Can I save a project and reuse elements in another document?

Save project downloads an .i2pdf project that you can resume from the upload page. Saving is explicit; there is no online account or automatic cloud save. My Library keeps reusable logos, signatures, stamps and other supported elements in this browser. Clearing site data removes the library. Projects retain source content, including material marked for redaction; share the finished PDF when you need a redacted copy.

Can I insert an editable table with Arabic text?

Choose Table, set rows and columns, then type or paste tab-separated cells from Excel or Sheets. Shift-click a second cell to select a range. Merge or unmerge cells; apply bold or a background to selected cells; set text, border and header colors. Drag column dividers, use their arrow keys or adjust the column-width slider. Choose automatic, left-to-right or right-to-left direction. Arabic letters are shaped in the preview and PDF.

Can I add clickable links and chapter bookmarks?

Yes. Select an inserted element and choose Link, or choose Link with no selection and draw a rectangle over text or an area. Unchanged source links are listed separately under Original links. Use Bookmarks for chapter titles and page destinations. Page links follow their target when pages are reordered; a link to a deleted destination is omitted from the export, and Undo restores it.

Does covering text with a shape permanently remove it?

No. Use Redact and generate the finished PDF to remove the marked source content. Ordinary shapes and watermarks only cover or mark it. Review the exported copy before sharing; the original file and editable project can still contain the original information.

What are the file and page limits?

Open one PDF up to 300 MB and 750 source pages. Protected files need an unlocked copy unless this tool explicitly offers password entry. Large or complex pages can require more memory or reach processing limits even when the file is within these limits.

Are my files uploaded for this tool?

Document processing and PDF generation run in your browser on your device. This tool does not upload the document for processing. Save your result before closing or reloading the page; the original file on your device is unchanged.

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