Edit a PDF visually — add text, white out sections, highlight, and place images or a signature, then save a real PDF.
A visual PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Add text boxes anywhere on the page, white out content you want removed, highlight passages, and place images or a signature — then flatten everything into a genuine PDF that opens correctly in any reader. Because rendering and saving both happen locally with pdf.js and pdf-lib, your document is never uploaded.
Upload your file using the tool above.
Adjust any settings to your preference.
Click the process button and wait for results.
Download your output using the download button.
Not by retyping it directly — this is an overlay editor. To change existing wording you white out the old text and add a new text box over it, which is how most practical PDF editing is done. It works reliably on any PDF, including ones whose embedded fonts resist true in-place editing.
No. Pages are rendered with pdf.js and the final file is built with pdf-lib, both running in your browser, so the document never leaves your machine. That matters for contracts, ID documents and anything else you would rather not hand to a server just to add a signature.
Because it is not text. Scanned pages and PDFs exported as images contain pictures of words with nothing selectable underneath. Run our PDF OCR tool first to add a real text layer. Since this editor works by overlay, you can still white out and retype over a scan regardless.
Yes, PDF Studio Editor is completely free. No signup, no account, and no watermark on outputs. A Pro tier is available for 100 AI ops/day and larger file sizes.
PDF Studio Editor uploads your file over an encrypted connection to our own processing server, converts it, and returns the result. The file is deleted immediately after processing and is never used for anything else. It is not sent to any third party, and we keep no copies.