Replace Text
Find text in a text-based PDF and replace it in place. Best effort: complex layouts and scanned pages cannot be edited exactly.
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How it works
- Upload the PDF you want to change.
- Type the exact text to find and what it should become.
- Optionally limit the change to certain pages, and choose whether capitalisation has to match.
- Run the tool and download the rewritten file.
What goes in, what comes out
- Accepts
- A text-based PDF
- Produces
- A PDF with the text replaced
- File limit
- 100 MB per file
- Your original
- Never modified — the result is a new file
- Retention
- Removed automatically after 2 hours
When people use it
- Correcting a company name or product name across a long report.
- Updating a date, version number or reference before resending.
- Removing a phrase entirely by leaving the replacement blank.
Questions about Replace Text
Does this work on scanned documents?
No. Replace Text works on real text objects. A scanned page is a picture of text, so there is nothing to search or replace. If you can select the text in a PDF reader, this tool can change it.
Will the layout stay exactly the same?
It is best effort. Replacement text is drawn in place of the original, so a much longer replacement can overflow the space the old text occupied. Short, similar-length replacements are safest.
Can I remove text instead of replacing it?
Yes. Leave the replacement field blank. If your goal is to remove confidential information, use Redact Text instead, which deletes the underlying content rather than overwriting it.
