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PDF Editor

Annotate PDFs with text, highlights, drawings, shapes, images, notes, and signatures, then export and download or save the result to Google Drive.

PDF Editor is the annotation workspace. Use it when you need to mark up page content rather than split, merge, or reorder pages. Open it from Extensions > Text To Table Converter > PDF & Image Tools > PDF Editor, or from the sidebar. Each time you open it counts as one premium use (Free: 5 per 30 days, Pro: unlimited).

Highlight what matters, add your signature, and export — the finished PDF opens right in your browser.
On this pageOpen and annotate a PDF

Open and annotate a PDF

  1. 1Open PDF & Image Tools and choose PDF Editor.
  2. 2Choose Upload from computer or Open from Google Drive™.
  3. 3Pick a tool and mark up the pages. Use Undo and Redo to step back and forward.
  4. 4Click Export PDF, then choose Download, Save to Google Drive™, Open file, or Open folder.

Annotation tools

  • Select, Text, Draw, Highlight, Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Image, and Note.
  • Signature: draw, type, or upload a signature. Turn on Save for reuse on this device to keep it for later.

Autosave and reopening

  • If you close the editor before exporting, the next time you open the same PDF it asks Restore your annotations? Images and signatures are not restored.
  • If you reopen a PDF that was exported from PDF Editor, choose Continue editing to bring back its annotations, or Keep flattened to work with the finished pages.

Need page operations instead?

PDF Split & Merge

Combine PDFs or extract, remove, rotate, and reorder pages.