Delete text in a research paper PDF
Last minute fixes to your own paper, like an author affiliation, a typo in a heading or a corrected figure caption, can be made directly in the PDF you're about to submit. Remove words, lines or a whole paragraph and close the gap they leave behind.
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How to do it
- 1.Drop your PDF into MythosPDF and click the text you want to change.
- 2.Select the words to remove and press Delete.
- 3.Press Enter to save the line, then Export PDF.
What people change in a research paper
- • Author names and affiliations
- • Typos in text and captions
- • Acknowledgements
- • Contact email
What happens to the rest of the page
- • The text is truly removed from the file, not covered with a white box.
- • Deleting a paragraph pulls the content below it up by the space it used.
LaTeX papers
PDFs from LaTeX often embed fonts with only the characters used. Small corrections usually work; longer additions are best made in the source.
Add supplements
Combine the paper with supplementary material using Merge PDF.
Questions people ask
+Is deleted text really gone?
Yes. The characters are removed from the page, so they cannot be copied or searched afterwards.
+Can I edit equations?
Equations are drawn from many small pieces and are best changed in the source document.
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