PDF annotation editor

This is an annotation tool, not a document reconstructor. It layers text, highlights, drawings, and signatures on top of a PDF's existing pages and exports the result as a new PDF. It does not reflow paragraphs, re-wrap text, or let you edit a sentence in the middle of a page the way a word processor would.

That distinction matters because the two jobs get confused constantly. If you need to change the wording of a contract clause, you need the source document. If you need to sign the contract, initial three pages, and mark one figure for review, that is annotation, and doing it here avoids the print-sign-scan cycle that degrades quality every round trip.

The common case is a PDF that arrives by email needing a signature and a date. Open it here, place your signature image where the signature line sits, add a text box for the date, and export. The result is a normal PDF that opens anywhere.

A signature image is worth preparing once and reusing. Sign a blank sheet of white paper in dark ink, photograph it straight on in good light, and crop tightly to the signature. That image will place more cleanly than one traced with a mouse, which almost always looks like it was traced with a mouse.

Annotation cannot redact. Drawing a black box over a bank account number hides it visually while leaving the text underneath fully selectable and extractable — a well-documented way that supposedly redacted documents have leaked. If information must be removed rather than covered, remove it from the source document and re-export.

It also will not fix a scanned PDF that contains no text layer. A scan is an image of a page; you can annotate it, but you cannot search or select the words on it. That requires OCR, which is a different operation.