Manual precision tool

Split badly detected PDF text fragments

PDFs do not always expose clean words. Sometimes a label, punctuation mark, or entire phrase is detected as one fragment. CrabPDF lets you split text manually when automatic detection is wrong.

When to use Split selection

A text box covers too much text.

You want to edit only a label like Name: or Total:.

PDF detection selects : value instead of the full field label.

OCR or PDF text extraction grouped multiple words together.

How it works

Double-click the problematic text fragment.

Select the substring you want to isolate inside the inline input.

Click Split selection.

CrabPDF replaces the original text item with smaller text items.

Now you can edit the isolated piece normally.

Private by design

CrabPDF is designed to run locally in your browser. The editing flow does not require uploading your PDF to a backend server. This makes it useful for quick local edits, OCR corrections, search and replace, and redaction experiments.

CrabPDF is experimental. Always verify important documents after editing or redaction.