PrivascanEdit the text already in a PDF
Click any highlighted line and retype it. The original text is removed from the file rather than hidden under a white box — which is the difference between editing a document and disguising one.
Before you upload anything — you will not have to
- Why are some lines not editable?
- Two reasons, both honest ones. A line sharing a text block with others cannot be replaced without shifting them, so it is refused instead of producing a crooked page. And a subsetted font stores glyph indices rather than characters — retyping would draw the wrong shapes.
- What happens to the original words?
- They are replaced in the content stream, not painted over. Search the saved file for the old text and you will not find it.
- My scan has no editable lines at all.
- Then it is a picture of a page, and there is no text to rewrite. Some scans carry an invisible OCR layer, which the tool names as such: editing it would change the file without changing what you see.