The Rankato PDF Editor gives you the same day-to-day editing operations as Sejda's editor — add text and shape overlays, whiteout sensitive regions, sign, fill forms, and search-and-replace text — all running client-side. Fair warning on text editing: PDF's format makes in-place text editing genuinely hard when fonts aren't embedded. The editor extracts embedded fonts when available (about 60% of PDFs) for accurate matching, falls back to the closest Google Font when not, and offers whiteout+retype as a reliable last resort.
What you can edit
Add: text boxes, images, shapes (rectangles, circles, lines, arrows), signatures. Modify: whiteout regions and retype (works on any PDF), or true in-place text editing when the source PDF embeds its fonts. Fill: interactive form fields with type-in support. Search-and-replace: find text and swap it, same-font when embedded fonts allow.
The honest tradeoff on text editing
PDFs describe visual layout, not editable text — they specify glyph positions with specific fonts. To edit text "in place" you need the exact font. About 60% of PDFs embed their fonts (extractable and usable for edits); the rest reference fonts by name (we fall back to the closest Google Font). For guaranteed reliability, use the whiteout + retype mode — it works on any PDF and looks identical to editing.
Save and share
Every edit renders into the output PDF via pdf-lib. Original file structure is preserved (bookmarks, links, form fields on unedited pages, metadata). Download the edited PDF or continue to another tool in the suite — flatten to bake in edits, protect with a password, or merge with other PDFs.