Edit PDF Text in Java — No Scrambled Characters, No Broken Layout
Enterprise-ready Java SDK that truly modifies text in place. Find-and-replace with automatic reflow, HIPAA-compliant redaction, fill templates programmatically. No flattening. No image overlays. Precise text editing.
This Is PDFDancer
Open. Find. Replace. Save.
PDFDancer treats PDFs like editable documents. Select content by what it says — not where it sits on the page — then modify it. The PDF handles the rest.
What You Get
Built for How Developers Actually Work with PDFs
In-Place Text Editing
Text is modified directly inside the PDF structure. No overlays, no image layers, no document rebuilds. The edited PDF is indistinguishable from the original.
Compliance-Grade Redaction
Content is permanently deleted from the PDF — not hidden behind an overlay. Every redaction is logged with timestamps and entity types for audit trails.
Thread-Safe for Scale
Each PDF session is independent and thread-safe. Spawn multiple threads, each with its own session. Process thousands of documents in parallel without corruption.
Spring Boot Native
REST controllers, @Value injection, service patterns — all out of the box. Maven or Gradle. Works with Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, and plain Java.
True content removal, not overlays. When PDFDancer redacts text, the original content is permanently deleted from the PDF — nothing can be recovered. This is the standard courts require.
Getting Started
Three Steps to Your First PDF Edit
Add to pom.xml
Maven or Gradle. Run mvn install.
Run the Examples
Copy the code above, point it at a PDF, and go.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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