Replace an image in place
Select a picture already on the page and upload its replacement. The new image occupies the same frame, so the surrounding layout does not move.
Editing problem
Replace an image in a PDF
The company rebranded and forty PDFs still carry the old logo. A product photo is out of date. A headshot needs replacing across a team sheet. The document is otherwise correct and nobody wants to rebuild it to change one picture.
Free — no signupNo watermarkNothing to installYour layout preserved
The short answer
To replace an image in a PDF, open the file, switch to the image tool, click the picture you want to change, and choose Replace to upload a new JPG or PNG. The replacement takes the original image’s position and frame, and the rest of the page is exported unchanged.
Click an image, upload its replacementSame position and frame keptAlso add, delete, rotate and re-orderText on the page is untouchedJPG and PNG — free, no signup
Why this happens
The editor finds the images already on the page, lets you select one, and swaps in a new file at the same position and frame. Everything else in the document is written back exactly as it arrived.
What the editor does about it
Delete an image cleanly
Remove a graphic and the space it occupied is filled with the background sampled from behind it, instead of leaving an obvious white rectangle.
Add, position and resize
Drop a new JPG or PNG onto any page, drag it where it belongs, and resize with the corner handles. Alignment guides appear while you drag so it lines up with what is already there.
Rotate and re-order
Rotate a placed image in 90° steps, and send it in front of or behind the existing page content when a stamp or watermark needs to sit on top.
Pull the original out first
Select any image already in the document and download it. Useful when you need the exact dimensions of the graphic you are about to replace.
Nothing is applied until you export
Image edits are previewed on an overlay and written to the original bytes only when you download, so the page you are looking at is never destructively modified mid-session.
Step by step
Open the PDF
Drop your file on the zone above. The page renders from the original document and the images already on it are detected.
Switch to the image tool and click the picture
Selecting an existing image gives you Replace, Download, Delete and the two rotate controls. Clicking directly on an image also switches the tool for you.
Upload the replacement
Choose Replace and pick a JPG or PNG. Matching the original image’s aspect ratio keeps the result from looking stretched inside a frame it was not shaped for.
Check it against the layout
Look at the caption, the text wrapping around it, and any border. The frame has not moved, so anything that looks off is a property of the new file rather than the page.
Export the PDF
Download the file. The image operations are applied to the original document in one write, and everything you did not touch is unchanged.
Where it stops — and says so
JPG and PNG
Those are the upload formats. An SVG or a PDF-format logo needs converting to a raster image first, at a resolution suited to how large it will print.
Vector artwork stays vector
Some logos are drawn as vector paths rather than placed as images. Those are not selectable as images — the practical fix is to cover the region and place your new logo on top.
Resolution is your responsibility
A replacement is placed at the frame’s size, so a small image dropped into a large frame will look soft in print. Match or exceed the original’s pixel dimensions.
Get it right the first time
Download the original before replacing it
It tells you the exact pixel dimensions and aspect ratio you should be matching, which is the difference between a clean swap and a stretched logo.
Use PNG when the image needs transparency
A logo on a coloured background needs an alpha channel. A JPG will bring a white box with it, which is the most common reason a swapped logo looks wrong.
Replace on every page, including the letterhead
Logos repeat in headers and footers. Check page by page before exporting — a document with two different logo versions is worse than one with the old logo throughout.
Deleting is not redacting
Removing an image takes it out of the file. Covering it with a shape only hides it. If the picture is sensitive, delete or redact it rather than drawing over it.
Frequently asked questions
Open the PDF in the editor, switch to the image tool, and click the picture you want to change. Choose Replace and upload a JPG or PNG. The new image is placed in the original image’s frame, so its position and size on the page stay the same, and the rest of the document is exported exactly as it was.
Yes, provided the logo was placed as an image rather than drawn as vector artwork. Click it, upload the new version, and export. If the logo is not selectable as an image it is vector — in that case delete or cover the region and place the new logo on top of it.
JPG and PNG. PNG is the right choice when the graphic needs a transparent background, which is usually the case for a logo sitting on anything other than white.
No. The replacement is written into the same frame the original occupied, so text does not reflow and nothing shifts around it. Only the image object is rewritten; every other object on the page is exported unchanged.
Select it and use the delete control. The area it occupied is filled with the background colour sampled from behind the image, which avoids the tell-tale white rectangle a simple removal leaves behind.
Yes. Add an image, drag it into position and resize it with the corner handles. Alignment guides appear while you drag so it lines up with the existing content, and you can send it in front of or behind the page content.
No. The replacement rewrites the image object rather than drawing a new picture over the old one, so the previous graphic is not recoverable from the exported PDF by extracting its images.
Yes, in 90° steps in either direction. Images you add yourself can also be rotated freely with the handle above the selection.
Tools and guides that go deeper
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Edit a PDF without losing its formatting
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Editing a scanned PDF
A scanned PDF cannot have its text edited, because the page is a single image and the file contains no text objects to replace.
Change one word in a PDF
To change one word in a PDF, open it in an editor that replaces text in place, click the word, and type the replacement.
Edit a PDF online — no signup
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Ready when you are
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