Edit a PDF like a Word document
— free, in your browser

Yes. Click on any sentence in your document and retype it. The editor reads the font, size and colour that the PDF actually uses and keeps them, so your change looks like it was always part of the document. Most free tools only let you place a new text box on top — this edits the real text.

It is free and it never adds a watermark. There is no sign-up, no page limit and no trial period. You download a normal PDF that opens anywhere.

The one-shot tools such as Merge and Compress never store your file: it goes in, the result comes out, nothing is written to disk. The editor does keep your file on the server while you work on it, so you can reload the tab without losing your edits — it is deleted automatically within a few hours, and you can delete it yourself at any time. Nothing is shared with anyone and no human reads your documents.

A scanned page is a photograph, so there is no text to click on yet. Running OCR first turns the picture of the words into real, selectable text, which you can then edit normally. Plain photographs of documents will always be less exact than a PDF that was created digitally.

Open your PDF, click Sign, and draw your signature with a mouse, trackpad or finger. It becomes a transparent image you can drop anywhere on the page, then drag and resize. Nothing shows through behind it, so it sits cleanly on a signature line.

Yes. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install on iPhone, iPad or Android. You can sign with your finger, and the tools work the same as on a computer.

Use the Compress tool. It first tries lossless clean-up, then reduces the size of any images, and returns whichever version is smaller — so you never end up with a file bigger than the one you started with. Scanned documents usually shrink the most.

Yes. PDF to Word rebuilds the text as a flowing Word document with the sizes, weights and colours preserved, so you can actually edit it in Word. Very complex page layouts will not line up exactly, because a PDF has no paragraphs — only fixed positions on a page.