Adding Text

With Nitro Pro you have the ability to add, edit and delete text from any section of your PDF. The Text tool makes it simple to edit or remove existing text on a document, as well as type additional text, as needed. Nitro PDF Pro offers a comprehensive suite of text formats and features so you can customize your document any way you like.

The Type Text tool lets you add and edit text anywhere on a PDF document.

How to Add Text:

Click the down arrow next to Annotate button in the Toolbar to reveal the tools. Select the Text tool. Insert a text box in one of two ways:

  1. Click anywhere on the page to insert a text box. The box will expand to hold the text you add.
  2. Click and drag to create a text box with a specific size. The text will automatically wrap to the size of the box. Start typing. You can also paste text from the clipboard that you’ve previously copied.

Use the handles to resize the text box; the text will automatically wrap.

Note: A PDF document that is a scan of a printed page is a bitmap image of text and will not have selectable text. It is treated as an image of text and not actual text. When you try to select text in such a document it will ask to perform Optical Character Recognition first. For details on generating selectable text from a scan, see OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

Additional resources:

Want to know more? Check out this training guide and video for further information.

How to edit text in a PDF document