Edit PDF text and images
Add text boxes with font, size, bold, italic, and color controls. Insert, move, resize, and rotate images.
All the tools you need to
edit PDFs in one app
Insert shapes, barcodes, and QR codes
Add shapes, check and cross marks, barcodes, and QR codes to your PDFs.
Mark up PDFs for review
Annotate PDFs with sticky notes, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, comments, shapes, image annotations, and links. Export comments and highlights as plain text for easy sharing.
Secure and compress PDFs
Open password-protected PDFs, set or remove passwords with AES-256 encryption, compress files, add text or image watermarks, and save backups to Zoho WorkDrive.
Export PDFs as image or text files
Save as PDF or flattened PDF, or export pages as TXT, PNG, or JPEG.
Manage PDF pages
Reorder, rotate, duplicate, split, and merge pages, or replace a page with one from another PDF file.
Automate PDF tasks from the command line
Run PDF operations from the terminal for batch jobs and scripting, including merge, split, extract, rotate, compress, watermark, protect, and flatten.
npm install -g @zohocorporation/zpdf-cli
$ zpdf merge invoice-*.pdf -o all-invoices.pdf
$ zpdf compress report.pdf --level high
$ zpdf protect contract.pdf --aes-256
# illustrative commands — replace with the real binary name
Why Choose
Zoho PDF Editor Desktop?
Your files stay on your device
Editing happens entirely on your computer. You can therefore confidently edit contracts, financial records, or any document you'd rather not upload to any server.
No internet, no sign up needed
Instantly open and edit PDFs, without worrying about signing in or internet. No upload, no waiting on a server.
Fully free, no limits
Every feature is free. No trial, no paid tier, no per-file caps.
Built-in CLI toolkit
Edit PDFs from command line, individually, in batches, automatically or on demand.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Zoho PDF Editor app is fully free.
No. You don't need a Zoho account to use the PDF Editor desktop app. It functions just like any other desktop app, without signing in.
Yes. As the app is fully local, processes PDFs right on your computer, and also saves the edited PDFs on your computer, you can securely edit confidential PDFs without any security concerns.
Yes, Zoho PDF Editor is an efficient alternative to Adobe Acrobat for viewing, editing, annotating, organizing, securing, and exporting PDFs online and from desktops, for free. However, it adds texts as overlays rather than editing original text.
You can export your PDFs to PDF, TXT, PNG, and JPEG formats. The capability to export PDFs to Word or Excel formats will be added soon.
You can install and use Zoho PDF Editor desktop app on Windows 10 1809+, macOS 12+, and Debian-based and RHEL Linux distributions.