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RemixPDF

Edit links in a PDF, free — add or change one

Add a link over some words, or fix one that points somewhere out of date. Clicking an existing link shows you where it goes.

  • Add a link, or fix one that points to the wrong place.
  • Free
  • No signup
  • No watermark

Runs on your device

What you have to hand while you work

Why it works

Existing links are editable, not just removable.

Click one and its address appears — change it, and the clickable area and the words underneath stay exactly as they are. Most tools can only delete a link and make you draw a new one.

The link and the visible text are separate things.

A PDF link is a clickable rectangle over the page; the blue underlined words are just words. So a link can point somewhere different from what it appears to say, and the tool shows you the real destination rather than the text.

It shows the links already in the document.

Rather than hunting for an invisible rectangle by hovering, every existing link is drawn as a highlighted region you can see, with its destination on hover — so a document with eleven of them is checkable.

A PDF link is not what most people picture. There is no anchor tag and no href attached to the words — the blue underlined text is simply blue underlined text, and separately there is an invisible rectangle sitting over that area which happens to carry an address. The two have no formal relationship, which explains most of the odd behaviour people run into.

It explains why a link can say “our website” and point at a page that no longer exists. It explains why deleting the words does not delete the link, and why a document can have a clickable area over blank space where something used to be. And it explains why most tools only offer to remove a link and draw a fresh one: editing the address of an existing rectangle is a slightly different operation from creating one, and it is the one people actually need when a company has changed its domain.

So both are here. Click an existing link and its real destination appears — the address, not the text — and changing it leaves the clickable area and the visible words untouched. Draw a box over an area and you can put a new link there, pointing anywhere on the web.

The other useful part is simply showing them. Finding links in a PDF by hovering is miserable, because the target is an invisible rectangle whose bounds you cannot see. A document with eleven links is effectively uncheckable that way, so every link is drawn on the page as a highlighted region with its destination on hover, and a wrong address becomes something you can read rather than discover.

One deliberate limit. The tool will not tell you whether an address still resolves, because checking would mean sending part of your document somewhere to test it. That is a request we would have to make on your behalf without asking, and we would rather list the addresses and let you look.

Free, nothing uploaded, no signup, and your original file untouched.

How it goes

  1. Open the PDF.

    Every link already in it is drawn on the page as a highlighted region.

  2. Click a link, or draw a box.

    Clicking an existing link edits where it goes; drawing a box adds a new one over that area.

  3. Set where it goes.

    A web address the link opens, or a page in this document it jumps to — script and file schemes are refused.

  4. Download it.

    Links are real PDF links, so they work in any reader.

What you can check for yourself

Watch the network while you work — nothing leaves this device on the default path. Then go offline and keep working — it all still runs. The two-minute checks live at how your files are handled.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Click it, change the address, and the clickable area stays where it was.

Because in a PDF they are separate. The visible text is text, and the link is an invisible rectangle over it — so text reading "our website" can point anywhere. That is why the tool always shows the real destination.

Yes. When you add or edit a link, choose 'Go to a page' and type the page number — or pick it on the thumbnails. The link follows that page if you reorder the document, and if you delete the target page the link is removed and the download receipt says so.

Yes. These are standard PDF link annotations, so any reader honours them.

It draws every link on the page with its destination on hover so you can read them, but it does not check whether an address still resolves — that would mean sending your document's contents somewhere to test, which we will not do quietly.

No. If the visible text also needs to change, that is the text editor, and the two are deliberately separate operations.

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Language

English and Spanish are fully translated. The rest are listed because they are coming — pick one and the page stays in English rather than showing you half a translation.