Add Text to a PDF
Place text anywhere on your pages: size, color, font and alignment.
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About this tool
Add text to an existing PDF: click where you want it, type your text, adjust the font, size, color and alignment, then export. Ideal for completing a document, adding a note or dating a non-interactive form.
How to use this tool
- 1Drop your PDF and open the relevant page.
- 2Click the page where the text should appear, then type it.
- 3Set font, size, color and alignment; move the block if needed.
- 4Download the PDF.
Limits to know
- Available fonts: Helvetica, Times and Courier (PDF standard fonts), with their bold and italic variants.
- Latin characters (including French accents, €, œ) are supported. Non-Latin alphabets (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese...) and emojis cannot be displayed with these fonts.
- The text is added on top of the document: the original text is not modified.
- Accepted formats
- Maximum size
- 100 MB
Privacy and file processing
Your file is read and transformed directly in your browser using open source libraries (pdf.js and pdf-lib). It is never sent to our servers, stored or analyzed.
Read our privacy policyFrequently asked questions
No, it is drawn on top of the page. To correct an existing passage, use the PDF editor ("Edit text" tool), which rewrites the page content when the font allows it.
Helvetica, Times and Courier (the PDF format's standard fonts) in regular, bold and italic, plus the embedded free families offered in the editor. Accents and Latin characters work; non-Latin alphabets and emojis are replaced with "?" and flagged.