rankato

Edit PDFs like Sejda — in your browser

Add text, images, and shapes. Whiteout regions. Search and replace text. Sign and fill forms. All operations run client-side.

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.

Tool FAQs

Everything you need to know about using PDF Editor.

Does my PDF get uploaded to a server?+

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser using pdf-lib and pdf.js loaded as WebAssembly. Open your browser's Network tab while processing and you'll see zero uploads — your PDFs never leave your device. That's why confidential contracts, tax records, and internal docs are safe to run through this tool.

Can I edit any text on any PDF?+

Yes, using whiteout+retype (works on 100% of PDFs). True in-place font-matched editing works when the PDF embeds its fonts (~60% of files) or when the referenced font matches an available Google Font.

How does search-and-replace work when fonts don't match?+

Replacement uses the same font as the original when embedded. When fonts can't be matched, the tool falls back to whiteout+retype in the closest available font, which is visually very close but not byte-identical.