Because of the high security and Cross-platform, PDF becomes to the most famous document format used in education, business and publication fields. Many of us may have encountered the situations that we need to modify PDF files for different reasons. For example, typos in PDF files, wrong data in PDF form and so on. Usually, we need to edit the original files like Word, PowerPoint and Excel then re-create PDF files.

But if the original files are no longer available how can we modify PDF files? A PDF Editor is needed for this situation. But even we have an Adobe PDF editor, there are still more problems of editing PDF files just like unknowing the owner password. Ok, let’s see how we can modify a PDF file.

Using PDF editor to edit PDF files directly

Adobe PDF editor (Acrobat) made editing PDF files easier. Editing PDF files is not a complex process with this tool. Just open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, edit adobe PDF text, images and forms directly. But this way is only available for you for the un-protected PDF files or you know the protected PDF password. And you cannot edit PDF text if the text is written with some special font which you don’t have on your computer.

This kind of PDF editor includes Foxit PDF editor, Nitro PDF Professional, AdreamSoft PDF Editor and so on. If you already have a PDF editor installed and cannot edit PDF files with password protected, you may consider some PDF password remove tools.

Convert PDF files to other format then edit it

The best format for editing is Microsoft Word. In order to convert the PDF files to Word, you need a PDF to Word converter. There are 10 freeware for converting PDF to Word, you may find your right one by referring to this article. Most of the PDF to Word converters cannot convert the password protected PDF files but AdreamSoft PDF to Word can. With the converted file, you can modify the text, forms easily. After the editing, create the Word file to PDF files again. There are tons of freeware like OpenOffice, Google Doc and SaveAsPdf can create PDF files well. Make sure to retain the Word file in case that you need to edit PDF files in the future.

By using the tools above, hope you can easily edit PDF files and save time.

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