How to edit PDF, for free

brians_daughter

Hi hope this is the right forum!

I have some sensitive personal data that i need to be able to edit. Its in PDF and basically i need to email the documents but i only want to send part of it to the recipient (nothing dodgy lol, just only part of the files are needed)

I have tried to print screen but it wont let me paste in paint or word or anything so is there a way for free, that is at entry level that i can use?

sam.wright_2

Hi there, this may hopefully help you

http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp

bat999

Hi
Maybe there will be more suggestions later.
Please tell me, do you need to edit out actual sentences and paragraphs or do you just need to remove whole pages?

sam.wright_2

Found this on another site also;

Is there a way to convert a PDF document to a Word file for simple editing?



Is there a way to convert a PDF document to a Word file for simple editing? Yes, it's easy. With the PDF document open in Acrobat 7 Standard or Professional, choose File > Save As. In the Save As dialog box, choose Microsoft Word Document from the Format (Mac) or Type (Windows) pop-up menu. Then simply click the Save button, and open the document in Word for editing.

debitcardmayhem

sam.wright wrote: »

Found this on another site also;

Is there a way to convert a PDF document to a Word file for simple editing?



Is there a way to convert a PDF document to a Word file for simple editing? Yes, it's easy. With the PDF document open in Acrobat 7 Standard or Professional, choose File > Save As. In the Save As dialog box, choose Microsoft Word Document from the Format (Mac) or Type (Windows) pop-up menu. Then simply click the Save button, and open the document in Word for editing.

If the OP had got Acrobat 7 Standard/Pro then she would not have asked how to edit for free

sam.wright_2

I use Acrobat 9 and can save highlighted parts as text document, then open in Word and edit whatever i need to

busenbust

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/reader3.php allows annotations.

brians_daughter

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
Maybe there will be more suggestions later.
Please tell me, do you need to edit out actual sentences and paragraphs or do you just need to remove whole pages?

Hi there, i need to remove a section of a page to send. Every page has 4 boxes of data in it running vertically - i need to remove one of these boxes to send to the recipient (any kind of format that i can email)

debitcardmayhem

Try doing it by hand then eg
1 go into word and create a 3x1 table
The in acrobat reader highlight the text in the first box with the the select tool (tools/select)
copy (ctrl+c)
go to word column 1 and paste
then repeat for columns 2 and 3

jacktyler

This is a handy site I've used. It should be fine for the basic editing you describe. Just use the "Whiteout" function in it, to remove the text you don't want.

http://www.pdfescape.com/

You don't need to install any software or register, but it's best to register (takes 2 seconds) because you get more functions.

Don't enter any billing information - it's free.

You need to upload the PDF file to edit it, so if it's very sensitive or confidential, this may not be suitable for you.

Ivrytwr3

i have a pdf editor (paid for licence) if you want i could edit it for you (from your initial description it doesn't sound too much hard work!)

If you're really stuck, let me know and i'll pm you my email.