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Masking tip: the standard download layers masks over the content — the text underneath technically remains inside the file. For true redaction use Download as image PDF: pages are rasterised with your masks baked in, so hidden details cannot be recovered (drawing becomes a scan-style image PDF).
100% private — editing happens locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or seen by any server.

Annotate PDF Drawings Without Uploading Them

Reviewing a supplier drawing, redlining a procedure, or marking inspection results usually means either printing the PDF or uploading it to some online editor. Both are wrong for controlled documents. This editor loads the PDF in your browser, lets you draw the markup on top, and then flattens your annotations permanently into a new PDF — locally. The file never crosses the network, so NDA drawings and customer data stay where they belong.

Built for drawing reviews and inspection

How it works

  1. Drop a PDF above — the first page renders immediately.
  2. Pick a tool: text, box, cloud, arrow, line, pen, highlighter, check or cross — plus a colour and size.
  3. Draw directly on the page; use Undo or Clear page to fix mistakes; page arrows move through the document.
  4. Click Download annotated PDF — your markup is flattened into the file, so it shows in every viewer and survives printing.

What this editor does not do

It does not rewrite existing PDF text — that is a re-authoring problem no browser tool does reliably, and pretending otherwise corrupts drawings. Markup is added on top of the original content, the same way a reviewer's red pen works. Text notes use the standard Helvetica character set (Latin letters, numbers, common symbols).

Related tools

To mark a whole document CONTROLLED COPY or OBSOLETE in one action, the Stamp & Watermark tool is faster. Assembling the marked-up drawing into a review pack? Use Merge PDF. And if the markup you need is dimension ballooning for an FAI, CadNexa auto-balloons the drawing instead of you clicking each dimension — then the AS9102 Form 3 builder takes the numbers.