Edit your PDFs on a visual canvas

Upload several PDFs and work with their pages as one document: drag to rearrange, rotate, delete, insert blank pages and export the result. Your files never leave your computer. Free includes one PDF per day; the 7-Day Pass and Pro are unlimited.

100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.

  1. Upload one or more PDFs
  2. Rearrange, rotate, delete or insert pages on the canvas
  3. Export a single PDF with exactly the pages you see

What Create or edit PDF does

Create or edit PDF opens a visual canvas where you can build a document from scratch or take apart and rebuild the ones you already have, on your own computer. You start with a blank page or you load one or several PDFs, and their pages appear on the canvas one after another, ready to be moved, turned, deleted or added to.

Because the documents you load are concatenated onto the same canvas, moving a page from one file into another is just dragging it. That is the difference between this and Merge PDF: merging joins whole documents in an order, while here you work at the level of individual pages and of what is drawn on them.

When you export, you get a single PDF containing exactly the pages you can see, in the order you can see them. Nothing is guessed and nothing is added behind your back.

How to edit a PDF

  1. Start from a blank page, or add one or more PDFs. Their pages appear on the canvas in order.
  2. Rearrange what you have: drag pages, including from one document to another, rotate them, delete the ones you do not want and insert blank ones where you need them.
  3. Add content to the pages with the canvas tools.
  4. Export the result. You get one PDF with the pages exactly as they appear, carrying the suffix _edited.

What the canvas is for, and what it is not

A PDF is not a word processor document, and no editor can pretend otherwise. Knowing where the line falls saves a lot of frustration.

Privacy: the canvas runs in your browser

The documents you load are opened, edited and exported inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, no page is sent anywhere to be rendered, and no third-party script is loaded. The only download is OléPDF's own code from its own domain.

That is what makes it usable on a document you would not put through an online editor: a contract in negotiation, an internal report, a file with client data in it.

Typical uses

Frequently asked questions

What does the editor cost?

The free plan includes one edited PDF per day. The 7-Day Pass and Pro remove that limit.

Can I edit the existing text of a PDF?

You can work on the page, but text in a PDF does not reflow the way it does in a word processor. A PDF records where every line sits, so changing one paragraph does not move the rest of the page. For heavy rewriting, go back to the source document.

Can I work with several PDFs at once?

Yes. Load them all and their pages appear on the same canvas, so you can drag a page from one document into another and export the lot as a single PDF.

How is this different from Merge PDF?

Merge joins whole documents in the order you set, and it is quicker when that is all you need. The editor works page by page and lets you change what is on them.

Are my documents uploaded?

No. Everything happens inside the browser tab on your computer, and no file reaches a server.

Can I start from nothing?

Yes. Open a blank page and build the document on the canvas without loading anything.

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