Choose a PDF, then drag across the text you want to strike through — the line snaps through the middle of the text line when you drag across real text. Over empty space, or on scanned pages with no text layer, the line is placed through the middle of the region you drag. Runs fully in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Show what comes out of the draft: drag across the old wording and a strike line runs through it in the downloaded copy.
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Strike through text in a PDF by dragging across it: a red, black or indigo line is drawn through the middle of the words — the clearest way to show deletions in a draft.
Editing a shared draft, you strike the three superseded prices rather than deleting them — everyone can see what changed and what it used to say, which is the entire point of a markup copy.
On pages with a text layer, each drag snaps to the lines it covers and the rule is stored through the middle of each line; elsewhere, the rule sits at the vertical centre of the dragged region. Either way it is drawn as PDF vector content in your colour. The text stays intact and selectable beneath the line — a strikethrough is a visible editorial mark, not a deletion; for genuine removal of content, use Redact PDF, which destroys the covered content.
No — deliberately. The words remain readable under the line, which is what a markup needs. To remove content permanently, use Redact PDF.
On a scanned page the line runs through the middle of your drag box — if the box was taller than the text line, the middle lands off the words, so drag a snug box. On a text page the line snaps to the line’s middle automatically; if it missed, the passage is probably a picture of text rather than real text.
Yes. It is untouched page content with a line over it.
Red is the editorial standard and the clearest signal of a deletion in shared drafts.
No — the marking happens in your browser.