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How to edit the text in a PDF and keep its font

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Open your PDF in Edit PDF text, select a line and retype it. The new words take the PDF’s own font, size and colour, and the old ones are taken out of the page, not hidden under a white box.

A lease’s section 1, Tenant and landlord, in Edit text: the Tenant line reads Maya Chen, retyped in the page’s own Times and outlined in blue.
The tenant’s name retyped in the page’s own Times.

Retype a line in five steps

  1. Open your PDF. Choose it in Edit PDF text; its lines and paragraphs are outlined.
  2. Select the line. The caret lands where you select it.
  3. Retype it. Each letter appears in the page’s own typeface.
  4. Choose Done. Undo takes the edit back.
  5. Download the PDF. The new words are in the file.

Good to know

  • On a keyboard, Enter finishes the edit.
  • A whole paragraph: choose Paragraph on the bar, and it re-wraps between its own margins as you type.
  • Missing letters. A letter the font lacks is underlined in red: choose other words, or Cover and retype to put matching text over the line.
  • A scan can be retyped once OCR PDF has read it, but its old words stay in the picture. To remove words for good, redact them.
  • Translating instead? Translate the PDF and keep its layout. The whole editor is at pdfeditor.page, and there are 45 single-purpose tools at pdfeditor.page/tools.

Questions

Does it need the font installed on my computer?

No, it types with the PDF’s own font, so only the letters that font carries can be used.

Is the old text still in the file?

Not when a line is retyped, but Cover and retype and a retyped scan leave the old words underneath.

Try it

Choose a PDF and retype a line. No sign‑up, no install.

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