Edit PDF: These free tools are available
Editing a PDF file is no problem with the right tools. You can also use free programs and do not have to spend extra money. We have summarized the best downloads for you.
How to edit your PDFs for free
The advantage of PDF format is that nobody can change formatting or content. At the same time, this can also be a disadvantage.
- If you want to edit a finished PDF, good advice is often expensive. Many of the tools that can be used to change PDFs are expensive to buy. We have therefore put together free alternatives for you.
- In our download area you will find, for example, the free "PDF24 Creator". With it you can both create and edit PDFs, for example add texts and notes. You can also extract all images or the entire text from a PDF with a click of the mouse and even combine several documents, images and PDFs into a single PDF. We will explain in another article how you combine PDFs in PDFCreator.
- As an alternative, we recommend the PDF-XChange Editor, the successor to the PDF Change Viewer. The most striking change is the new design, with which the editor appears much more modern and tidy. Numerous editing tools for marking, highlighting and strikethrough are on board. You can add comments using a pre-selection of stamps and the comment function.
Edit PDF without additional tools
Some word processing programs also allow editing of PDF files.
- If you use Word 2013 on your computer, you can edit PDF directly in Word, without any additional tools. However, you must first convert the PDF to a Word format (.docx), and file information may be lost.
- You can also import and then edit PDF documents with the free open source program OpenOffice. To load a PDF into OpenOffice, however, you must first load and install the corresponding add-on.