How to edit the text in a PDF and keep its font
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.
Retype a line in five steps
- Open your PDF. Choose it in Edit PDF text; its lines and paragraphs are outlined.
- Select the line. The caret lands where you select it.
- Retype it. Each letter appears in the page’s own typeface.
- Choose Done. Undo takes the edit back.
- 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 PDF often carries only the letters it uses. One its font lacks is set in a close match, such as Arimo for Arial, and the bar names it before you save. One no close match has, such as Chinese in an English line, is underlined in red: choose other words, or Cover and retype, which leaves the old words in the file underneath.
- 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 OneStopPDF, and there are 48 single-purpose tools at onestoppdf.com/tools.
Questions
Does it need the font installed on my computer?
No, it types with the PDF’s own font. A letter that font lacks in the file is set in a close match the app carries, and the bar says so.
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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