Editing Text

You can use the Edit tool to update and move existing blocks of text as a paragraph bound within a container, making it so you don’t need to manage individual lines. As you edit text or resize the bounding-box while editing, text re-flows naturally onto adjacent lines.

How to Edit & Correct Text:

Nitro PDF Pro lets you edit or delete original text in your PDF document.

  1. Select the text you want to correct using the Select Text tool.
  2. Click the Correct Text button in the toolbar.
  3. The selected text is replaced with a text box that can be edited or deleted, just like any other text box.
  4. If spell check highlights an error, right-click the text to see a spelling suggestion.

Note: Correct Text works best on small portions of text in the same line or paragraph. The results may not match the underlying text exactly. In particular, fonts and spacing will vary at times. Nitro PDF Pro will match the font in the document with a font in your macOS provided Font Book. If you do not have the same font, it chooses the closest match.

How to Move Text:

    1. Select a text block to move or delete using the Precision Edit tool. This is different from a text box where you can edit the text it contains.
    2. Select the Precision Edit tool from the Editing bar.
    3. Click on the word or line you would like to move or remove. Then drag it around, resize it, or delete it.

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 for further information.

How To Edit Text In Nitro Pro
Editing & Redacting Text