What you need
- A PDF under 5 MiB (25 MiB on Pro), up to 100 pages
- A desktop browser (upload and download only on a phone)
- Text you can select — not a scan
- A free account, with a confirmed email, to download
Which resumes edit cleanly
- Usually fine: PDFs saved from Word, Google Docs, Pages or LaTeX, on a plain background.
- Harder: design apps and resume builders. Text over a photo or gradient is often Overlay only, and a heading turned into a shape cannot be edited.
- Word-processor resumes show Limited on most blocks: usually one borrowed letter, not a broken edit. Why.
Select a block and the panel shows its grade before you change anything. Edit only your own resume, and only to what is true (acceptable use).
The usual changes
- An end date — change a date.
- A job title or company name, about the same length.
- A phone number, email address or city.
- A typo — fix a typo.
Check what an applicant system reads
When you export, the old words of an edited block are removed where the editor can tell which ones they were — often, not always. To check:
- Open the exported PDF, select all, and paste into a plain text editor.
- If an old date or title is still there and it matters, rebuild the resume from its source.
Related: edit the text in a PDF, is my PDF scanned? Open the editor.