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Find any text in the PDF and replace it.
On your device. No watermark. No sign-up.
This tool is processed locally with JavaScript inside your browser tab. The document is not uploaded, stored or seen by a server, which makes it suitable for contracts, invoices, CVs and medical or financial records.
A PDF is a page description, not a word processor file, so there is no paragraph to retype. This tool finds a phrase on every page, covers it with a white box, and draws your replacement in the same place.
Type the text to find and the text to replace it with, and press Edit text. Every occurrence in the document is changed, upper or lower case. The result is a new file named after the original with -edited added, and your original is not changed. The note under the file says how many replacements were made.
If you leave the replacement box empty, the old words are covered and nothing is written in their place.
The white box covers only the words you searched for, not the whole line. The replacement is drawn at the same size as the old text, in the closest standard font: Helvetica for sans-serif text, Times for serif text and Courier for monospaced text. It is not the original font, and it is not bold or italic. Its colour is a near-black.
The phrase can sit in the middle of a longer line. Its position is worked out from the widths of the letters, so it can be a little off. Look at the result at 100% zoom.
If your new text is wider than the old, the tool makes it up to 15% smaller to fit the space. If it is still wider, the card tells you, and the text can run into the next word. Keep replacements about as long as the original.
It works well for a typo, a changed phone number, a new email address, a corrected name or a date, in a PDF that was made on a computer, on a plain white background.
The cover is white. On a coloured background, a shaded table cell or a photo, you will see a white patch. Text inside an image or a scan cannot be found at all, because there is no text to search. Run OCR PDF first, and expect the positions to be approximate.
The phrase has to sit on one line. A phrase that wraps onto the next line is not found. To change a sentence or a paragraph, edit the source document and export a new PDF, because this tool cannot re-flow text.
By default the old words are only hidden under the white box. They are still in the file, and a search or a copy-paste can find them. The card under the result says so.
Tick Remove the old text from the file if the old words must not be recoverable. The tool then redraws every edited page as a picture at 150 DPI, so the old text is gone from those pages. The price is that those pages are no longer selectable text, they are bigger in file size, and fillable form fields are not kept. Pages you did not edit are copied as they are.
If you need to hide sensitive text rather than change it, Redact PDF is made for that.
The replacement is drawn with the standard PDF fonts. Latin letters, digits, accented letters such as é and symbols such as € and @ work. The ₹ sign, and scripts such as Devanagari, Tamil, Arabic or Chinese, do not.
If your replacement contains such a character, the tool stops and names it instead of drawing a wrong symbol. Write Rs. or INR in place of ₹.
The text you search for has to be real text in the PDF in the same characters, so searching for words in an Indian language only finds them if the PDF stores them as ordinary text.
Fixing your own typo, address or phone number is what this tool is for. Do not use it to change figures, names, dates or marks on a document that someone else relies on, such as an invoice you did not issue, a certificate, a mark sheet or a bank statement. That is forgery in many places, and the original text can often be recovered from a file that was edited in the default way.
A digital signature on the PDF stops being valid once the file is changed. Edit the source and have it signed again.
The search and the edit happen inside this browser tab, with PDF.js and pdf-lib. The PDF and the words you type are never sent to a server, so it is safe for CVs, letters and contracts. After your first visit the tool also works offline.
Yes. There is no account, no daily limit and no watermark on the edited file.
No. The PDF is edited in your browser and never leaves your device.
Drop in the PDF, type the words to find and the words to replace them with, and press Edit text. Every match in the document is changed.
Not by default. It is hidden under a white box and a search can still find it. Tick Remove the old text from the file to redraw the edited pages as images, and the old text is gone from them.
Helvetica, Times or Courier, whichever is closest to the old text, at the same size. It is not the original font, and it is not bold or italic.
The PDF has no text to search, for example because it is a scan, or the words are split over two lines or stored differently. Try a shorter part of the phrase, or run OCR PDF on a scan first.
Not directly. Run OCR PDF first to add a text layer, then edit. The positions of OCR text are approximate, so check the result.
The cover is always white. On a coloured background or a picture it shows as a patch. This tool works best on a plain white page.
No. The tool draws with the standard PDF fonts and stops with a message if a character is not available. Write Rs. or INR instead of ₹.
Not well. The tool replaces a phrase on one line and cannot re-flow text. For a paragraph, edit the source file and export a new PDF.
Remove the password first with Remove Password. If the PDF only blocks printing or copying, run it through Unlock PDF. Otherwise the tool says the file is not a valid PDF.
Last updated 12 November 2026
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