so if you don't have access to something like this Adobe Acrobat Pro where you can edit PDFs
I want to show you some options that you have where you can edit PDFs for free so
by edit PDFs what I mean is to actually go in and edit the text or take out an image
add a new image maybe change the order of pages or delete pages so I want to give you
a few different free options that you can edit your PDFs with today on teachers Tech thank you
option number one is an adobe product and it's Adobe Express so this is completely online you
can sign up for free and you can edit some PDFs now just to let you know with the free version
you're not going to have a lot you can do every month but if you only need this as a one-off this
is a great option let me show how easy this works so what I need you to do though if you don't have
an account go ahead and sign up for a free one if you do have one let's get signed in so we can see
when I get logged into Adobe Express there's a lot more options than just working with PDFs you can
go ahead and create a lot of amazing graphics with this I have a different video about using that
I'll put a link to it as well but if I go just to here try a quick action I have PDF if I look at
all the things I can do with PDFs they're right here I could also hit this plus sign and here's
all the PDF ones here now I just want to focus on this one right here the edit text and then images
but I do want to point out you can organize Pages or combine files as well so if I go ahead and hit
edit text images this is where I need to open up or drag and drop it over I want to point
out with the free option you do only get two per month where you can edit and download that's why
if this is just one off you need it maybe just use it once or you know you're not going to use
it anymore much this is a good option in the other ones I'll show you how you can have more downloads
if you are going to be able to or if you want to be able to do more but let's go ahead and grab
a PDF and drag it in and so it's going to upload here and when it uploads you're going to see that
I'm going to have the options where I can add more text and I can go ahead and start to make
any changes so it's all uploaded here I can see that it's 12 different pages down below I can go
ahead and zoom up if I want to or you have these different options now I can go ahead and on this
one I can go through and start making some changes right away where I can type right into it so it's
telling me that the font's not the same but I can go ahead and add text also on this so I can
click to add new text I'll just click here and you can see how I can quickly add it and I can
go through and make those customizations to the font when you're all done you can go ahead and
hit download so now the download is going to count as one of them but it downloads and then I have
that one again so very easy to use if you need to change some text in a PDF think about this option
Adobe Express to quickly change but remember remember you can manipulate the pages like I
showed you I know those other options as well so do you have an account on canva did you know you
could actually edit PDFs in canva let me show you how you do this so I'm going to use a free
version I have a paid version of canva 2 but I'm going to just log in with my free version here so
I'm just going to log in with Google this is a free one that I created and now I want to show
you how easy it is to edit PDFs in here and it works quite good so again all I'm going to do is
I have my sample file that I uploaded into Adobe Express I'm just going to drag and drop it over
so you can see there it is right now I'm just going to go ahead and open it and when I open
it up I'm just going to zoom up here so we can see it here if you haven't used canva before
this is a great product very similar to Adobe Adobe Express what I just showed you but now
I can go through and make any edits in here uh just like normal editing you can see and then
I can type anything back in here as well so I can go through even if I go to some of the images in
here if I click on it I can start resizing them in here so when you're all done you can go ahead
and hit share and what do you want to download it as well you want to download it as you have
some options I would drop down we have PDF here PDF standard PDF print so whatever you want and
then we can go ahead and download it and you can see it's congratulating me on my first design
and now I've downloaded this one so if you have a canva account think about editing PDFs right in it
the next free pdf editor that I want to show you and I really like this one is Sage da now
I like this because they don't have to create an account for this one and it's so simply I can drag
and drop my files just like I did before I have some options where I can get the uh the PDF from
as you can see I want to point out this right here file state private automatically deleted
after two hours free service for documents up to 200 Pages or 50 megabytes three tasks per hour so
for me I don't think I would ever need it more than that but and remember this is a free one
so I'm going to go ahead and just drag that PDF same one and look at all the options that I have
in here so where I can add new text in here I could add my images sign lots of different
options in here so I can just simply go through like I've done before and start editing any of
this information if I wanted to take lots out or I can input text as I said more text on top of it
so very simple to use so when I have that notice wherever I click the new text appears and then you
can go ahead and type whatever you want into it after that point so I play around with this one
when you're all done you can hit apply changes I can keep or remove I'll say keep and then again
it goes through processes this and I can download this sample PDF and I'll have my changes that I
made to it so this is sage. this is great because you don't have to make an account for this one the
last option I want to show you on how to edit your PDFs for free is LibreOffice so maybe you don't
feel comfortable uploading your documents to a cloud service you want to keep everything on your
computer well you can go ahead and install Libra office so this is all free to use now you can just
go ahead and click download now I'll put the link to this you can install it on your computer if you
don't already have it so I have it installed on mine I'm going to go to that same file that I've
been dragging over and uploading I if I go to this here and just right click on it I want you to go
to open with now you could make this your default opening up but I have Adobe Acrobat DC as mine but
if I find LibreOffice draw and open this document up it's going to open it up in a way that I can
edit it now I find this gets to be very it looks a little bit more like Adobe Acrobat Pro as I go
through you can see I can start going through if I zoom up a little bit that's a little bit
too much here so if I zoom up and then I can go through and start making any edits and it's very
crisp because this is installed on your computer if I look over to the side I can start to change
my images I have the handles on them to resize I can rotate and do a lot of things like that so
this is a good one to go through and make your edits I really like this one it's a free one
uh that very a very powerful one that you can have installed on your computer let's say you make your
edits and you're all done what you can do is go to file and take a look under export as you can
export as a PDF so you could make your changes uh there and you can export it and choose your
different settings that you want and go ahead and Export that so there you go our five free
options on how to edit PDFs and some of these are very powerful some will be just for your quick
uh ones that maybe you don't have many PDFs to do but uh just kind of a sort of different ones that
maybe will help you find the right one I do want to point out a couple different options did you
know you could edit your PDFs with Microsoft Word so if you have Microsoft Word on your computer I'm
going to put a link to a different video on that where you can click on it and it's a quick video
and I'll show you how to edit your PDFs the other thing I wanted to point out if if you haven't if
you don't have a subscription to Adobe Acrobat Pro that is a very powerful one if you are part of a
corporation or maybe a district school district you might already have a subscription to that and
if you do make sure you take advantage of that because it's very powerful I do have a different
tutorial for that one as well so I hope you like these different types of PDF editors on how you
can edit your PDFs for free let me know in the comments of different ones that you've used thanks
for watching this time on teachers Tech I'll see you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials