A PDF link is a separate annotation, not a property of the text. Exporting from Word, Google Docs or a browser often writes the address as plain text and drops the annotation, so it reads like a link but does nothing when clicked. This tool adds the annotation back.
Add Link to PDF — Make Hyperlinks Clickable Online
Exporting to PDF often leaves web addresses looking like links but doing nothing when clicked. This tool finds them and makes them clickable again — or links any text you choose to an address you supply.🔗 Clickable links in seconds
How it works
Simple steps to enhance your documents
Step 1
Upload your PDF Drag it in or pick it from your device.
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Step 2
Choose what to link Leave automatic detection on to link every address found, or type the exact text and the URL it should point to.
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Step 3
Download Your PDF comes back with working links and everything else untouched.
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Tool FAQs
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Got questions about our tool features? We've gathered answers to the most common inquiries. Need more help? Reach out to our team.
Web addresses starting with http:// or https://, bare addresses beginning www., and email addresses, which become mailto links. Decimals and prices such as 3.5 or $10.99 are deliberately left alone — a wrong link is clickable and takes the reader somewhere unintended.
Yes. Give the exact text as it appears in the document and the address it should point to, and every occurrence becomes a link. You can use this together with automatic detection or on its own.
Not directly. A scan is an image with no text to search, so nothing can be found to link. Run the OCR PDF tool first to add a text layer, then come back.
Nothing is duplicated. Links already present are left as they are, so running the tool on its own output adds nothing and changes nothing.
No. Only link annotations are added. Text, images, fonts and layout are untouched, and existing links are preserved.
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