Free Online PDF Editor & Viewer

OpenPdfEdit is a free online PDF editor and PDF reader that works right in your browser. Open a file and you can read it, mark it up, change its text and save it again, with no account and nothing to install. The document is opened, edited and saved on your own device, so it never passes through our servers, and the editor keeps working offline once it has loaded.

Edit PDF online, the way you would on your desktop

• Read and annotate — highlight, underline, draw and add notes to any page.
• Edit text — fix a typo or change a sentence where it sits on the page.
• Fill in forms — type into form fields, then flatten them so they cannot change.
• Organise pages — reorder pages, merge several PDFs into one, or pull the pages you need out into a new file.
• Redact — black out sensitive text so it is removed from the file, not just covered.
• Sign — draw your signature once, then place it on any page.
• Compare — see what changed between two versions of a document.
• Compress — make a large PDF smaller before you send it.
• Protect — save a copy that opens only with a password.
• OCR — turn a scanned page into text you can select and search, as a Supporter feature.
• Watermark — stamp text across every page, as a Supporter feature.

A free PDF viewer that keeps your files on your device

Most online PDF tools upload your document to a server, process it there and send a copy back. OpenPdfEdit does the work in the browser instead, using the same PDF engine that powers Chrome, compiled to WebAssembly. Contracts, bank statements and medical letters stay on the computer or phone you opened them on. That also makes it fast: pages render as you scroll, and there is no waiting for an upload to finish before you can start.

It runs in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook, and can be installed as an app so it opens like one. The same editor is also available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows and as a browser extension.

How to edit a PDF online for free

1. Choose Open PDF, or drop a PDF file onto this page.
2. Pick a tool from the toolbar and make your changes.
3. Save. Your edited PDF is written straight back to your device.