Find & replace text
Replace words or phrases throughout a PDF where its text encoding allows.
Runs in your browser — files never leave your deviceInput: PDFOutput: PDFSee limitations
or drag and drop a file here
About Find & replace text
Original characters are removed from the page and the replacement is drawn at the same position, size and colour in the document's own font — characters that font lacks use a matching open font.
How it works
- Add your pdf — drag and drop or browse.
- Choose your settings.
- Click the action button and wait a moment.
- Download the result. Nothing was uploaded.
Good to know
- Text doesn't re-flow: a longer replacement can overlap following text.
- Characters missing from the document's embedded font use a matching open font (the same free font, a metric-compatible one such as Carlito for Calibri, or the closest in letter widths).
- Some PDFs encode text in a way that can't be edited (reported per page).
- Scanned PDFs have no text layer — run OCR PDF first.
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