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title: "Edit PDF text and images for free, offline | Paperwing"
description: "Edit the text and images in a PDF on Windows or Mac with Paperwing, a free desktop app. Fix a typo or swap a logo right in the page. No upload, no account."
url: https://paperwingapp.com/tools/edit-pdf/
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Free tool · Windows and macOS

# Edit a PDF right in the page.

Click a paragraph and type. Paperwing edits the text and images in your PDF on your own computer, for free, with no upload and no account.

[Download for Windows](https://github.com/rohanvijaykumar/paperwing/releases/download/v1.2.3/Paperwing-Setup-1.2.3-x64.exe) · [Download for Mac](https://github.com/rohanvijaykumar/paperwing/releases/download/v1.2.3/Paperwing-1.2.3-mac-arm64.dmg) · [Download Paperwing](https://paperwingapp.com/download/)

v1.2.3 · Windows 10 and 11 · 188 MB v1.2.3 · Apple Silicon · 192 MB · [Intel Mac?](https://paperwingapp.com/download/#mac) Free for Windows and macOS · v1.2.3 [Other versions](https://paperwingapp.com/download/)

## How to edit PDF text and images with Paperwing

1. Open Paperwing and drop your PDF on the window, or press Ctrl+O (⌘O on a Mac).
2. Open **All tools** and choose **Edit text & images** (or **Edit a PDF** under Popular).
3. Click any line or paragraph and edit it in place. The text reflows, and you can change the font, size, colour, alignment and style from the Format panel.
4. Click an image to move, resize or replace it.
5. The result opens in a new tab and your original stays untouched. Press Ctrl+S to save it, or Shift+Ctrl+S to save a copy.

## What you can do

- Edit text in place, with live reflow, fonts and styling
- Move, resize and replace images
- Annotate, highlight, comment and draw with the floating toolbar
- Add text boxes, shapes, stamps and signatures
- Undo and redo with Ctrl+Z and Shift+Ctrl+Z

## Why do it on your computer

Most free PDF editors are websites: your document goes to someone else’s server so they can edit it. Paperwing runs the editor on your computer, so contracts, invoices and medical forms never leave it.

**Paperwing is a free, open-source desktop app** for Windows and macOS with more than 100 PDF tools. It works offline, there’s no account, and every tool is free. [Download it](https://paperwingapp.com/download/) or [browse all the tools](https://paperwingapp.com/tools/) .

## Questions

### Can I edit text in a scanned PDF?

A scan is a picture of a page, so there is no text to edit yet. Run **OCR PDF** first to add a text layer, then edit.

### Does editing change the fonts?

Paperwing keeps the document’s fonts where the PDF embeds them. For text in a font the PDF doesn’t include, it uses a close fallback, and you can pick another font in the Format panel.

## Related tools

[**Sign a PDF** Sign PDFs with a drawn, typed or image signature, or a digital certificate, in Paperwing, a free desktop app.](https://paperwingapp.com/tools/sign-pdf/) · [**Redact a PDF** Permanently remove sensitive text and images from a PDF on Windows or Mac with Paperwing, a free desktop app.](https://paperwingapp.com/tools/redact-pdf/) · [**Make a scan** Make scanned PDFs searchable and copyable with OCR on Windows or Mac in Paperwing, a free desktop app.](https://paperwingapp.com/tools/ocr-pdf/) · [**Fill in a PDF form** Fill in PDF forms on Windows or Mac, including XFA forms, with Paperwing, a free desktop app.](https://paperwingapp.com/tools/fill-pdf-form/)

## Open your next PDF in Paperwing.

Free for Windows and macOS. No account, no subscription, nothing to sign up for.

[Download for Windows](https://github.com/rohanvijaykumar/paperwing/releases/download/v1.2.3/Paperwing-Setup-1.2.3-x64.exe) · [Download for Mac](https://github.com/rohanvijaykumar/paperwing/releases/download/v1.2.3/Paperwing-1.2.3-mac-arm64.dmg) · [Download Paperwing](https://paperwingapp.com/download/) · [Star on GitHub](https://github.com/rohanvijaykumar/paperwing)

v1.2.3 · Windows 10 and 11 · 188 MB v1.2.3 · Apple Silicon · 192 MB · [Intel Mac?](https://paperwingapp.com/download/#mac) Free for Windows and macOS · v1.2.3 [Other versions](https://paperwingapp.com/download/)