Add Page Numbers to PDF

Choose your PDF, pick where the number goes and how it is written, and download the numbered file. There are six positions, at the top or bottom on the left, centre or right, and four ready-made formats such as "Page 3 of 12", or you can write your own.

Yes, with one switch. The first page gets no number and numbering starts on page two, which is usual for a report or a proposal.

Yes, any number. Useful when the document continues from another volume, or when the front matter was numbered separately.

Yes. Pick that format or write your own, where {n} becomes the page's number and {p} the total.

Yes. Write your own format of up to 60 characters, with {n} where the number goes and {p} for the total, for example "Annual report, page {n}". Bangla, Arabic, Chinese and other scripts are drawn with a font that can show them.

Here you can leave the first page unnumbered. To number a particular range, such as pages 3 to 20, use Add Header & Footer, which takes a page list like 3-20 and can put the number in any of six places.

Double-sided printing. A number placed left or right swaps to the outer edge on alternate pages, so it never ends up in the binding. Centre positions are unaffected.

Switch on the white backing and it sits on a small opaque pill. You can also change the colour, including to white.

Yes. A sample page shows the number in place and updates as you change the position, format, size and colour, so you can settle the look before your file is processed.

Yes. Every tool works without paying and without an account. Files can be up to 200 pages and 80 MB, and a run that fails costs you nothing.

No. All tools work without signing in. An account raises your hourly allowance and lets you see what you have processed.

Your file stays on our server only for a short time while it is processed, then it is deleted. It is sent over an encrypted connection. We keep a record that the tool was used, but not the file name or what is in the file.