Edit PDF

Yes. Click a line to put a cursor in it and retype it. cherrypdf matches the font, size and spacing already on the page, so the correction sits inside the paragraph rather than on top of it.

Not where the document carries its fonts with it. Where a font is one of the fourteen a PDF is allowed to assume is installed, cherrypdf stands in a face with the same metrics, so line breaks and spacing hold.

You can mark it up, draw on it, sign it and reorder its pages, but you cannot retype it. A scan is a photograph of a page: there are no letters in it to edit, only pixels. OCR PDF can give it a text layer, so it becomes searchable and selectable, even though it still cannot be retyped here.

Editing happens in this browser tab. When you download an edited PDF you opened with Keep the original, the original file and the list of edits are sent to our server over an encrypted connection, so the PDF can be patched with its own fonts rather than redrawn; the copy there is deleted as soon as the result is sent back. If the server cannot be reached, nothing is downloaded and the download dialog says so, so you can try again. A PDF opened with Reflow into paragraphs, or a document started from a blank page, is written in your browser.

Yes, on this tool. cherrypdf opens a PDF up to 40 MB, and reads the first 100 pages of a longer one — it says how many it left behind. Rebuilding a file as something you can click into and retype costs far more memory than the page tools, which only restack pages and have no fixed cap.

Not to open and edit a PDF. Downloading the result needs a free account, which also decides where a copy you choose to keep is stored.

Not from here — the signature tool on this page adds your own mark while you edit. To collect signatures from other people, use eSign: it places a signature box for each person, sends the request, and tracks who has opened and signed, with no account needed on their side.