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Getting Started
3Getting started
Open a PDF and find your way around RaioPDF.
Your data never leaves your computer
Every document operation runs on your own machine. Your files aren't uploaded, and there's no account.
Report a problem
Two ways to tell us something went wrong — email it, or hand it to your own AI assistant to diagnose first.
Edit & Annotate
14Highlight
Drag over text to add a real highlight annotation that saves with the PDF.
Underline
Drag over text to add a real underline annotation that saves with the PDF.
Strikethrough
Drag over text to add a real strikethrough annotation that saves with the PDF.
Edit Text — change or replace text in a PDF
Change the real text in a typed PDF — find & replace across the whole document, or right-click a selection to replace exactly that text.
Comment
Drop note pins on a page. They're saved as real PDF annotations when you save.
Text Box
Type your own text onto a page as a real annotation.
Callout
Add a callout annotation pointing to a spot on the page.
Create Fillable Fields
Turn a fieldless form into a reusable PDF with real text fields and checkboxes.
Image
Place a picture on a page.
Draw
Draw freehand marks on a page.
Shapes
Draw rectangles, ellipses, lines, and arrows as real annotations.
Sign
Place a signature on a page — drawn by hand or from an image.
Page Numbers
Stamp page numbers onto the document.
Watermark
Stamp repeating text like DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL across the pages.
Make Searchable (OCR)
1Organize
11Organize Pages
Reorder, rotate, delete, extract, split, and export pages — all in one place.
Rotate Pages
Turn the selected pages a quarter-turn clockwise.
PDF -> Word
Convert one PDF into an editable Word document.
Import Word Document
Convert a Word document into a PDF on your computer, then open it in RaioPDF.
Merge PDFs
Add other PDFs after the current one, into a single combined file.
Insert from File
Insert another PDF's pages at a spot you choose.
Insert images as pages
Turn image files into PDF pages and add them into your document.
Crop / Resize
Trim margins off pages or resize them to a standard page size.
Compress
Make a PDF's file size smaller while keeping it a PDF.
Repair
Rebuild a PDF that won't open cleanly.
Document Properties
See a document's details — page count, size, metadata, and whether it's searchable.
Legal
12Prepare for Filing
Get a PDF ready for the court's e-filing portal in one step — right size, right format, split if it's too big.
Batch Cleanup
Run many PDFs through the same cleanup steps at once — OCR, compress, sanitize, scrub metadata, and more.
Case Caption
Fill in a matter caption once, preview the style, then save or prepend the caption page.
Table of Authorities
Scan a brief for cited authorities, review the list, then save or prepend a Table of Authorities.
Combine with Exhibits
Assemble a main document and its exhibits into one file, each exhibit labeled and bookmarked.
Sensitive Info Scanner
Scan a document for sensitive personal information — Social Security and account numbers, and the like — before you file.
Redact — remove text for good
Permanently take confidential text out of a PDF, so it's gone — not just hidden behind a black box.
Bates Numbering
Stamp sequential Bates numbers onto every page of a document.
Production Set
Build a Bates-numbered discovery production from a set of documents, with confidentiality designations and an index.
Scrub Metadata
See and remove the hidden information a PDF carries about who made it, with what software, and when.
Sanitize
Strip hidden active content — embedded scripts, attached files, and links — from a PDF.
PDF Security
Create a copy that needs a password to open, or save an unlocked copy.