Add Page Numbers to PDF
Number the pages of any PDF — pick the corner, the style and where the count starts.
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Files are processed on your device and never uploaded.
How it works
- Drop your PDF onto the tool.
- Choose where the number sits, which style to use (1, Page 1, or 1 of 12), the font size and the starting number.
- Tick Skip the first page if the document opens with a cover, then click Add page numbers and download.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I stop the cover page from being numbered?
- Yes. Tick Skip the first page and page one is left clean, with the numbering starting on page two. Combined with the Start at setting you can also make that second sheet read 1 rather than 2, which is the usual convention for reports with a title page.
- Why would I change the starting number?
- Because the file is often one part of something longer. If this PDF is the second half of a report that ended on page 24, set Start at to 25 and the numbering continues correctly. Setting it to 0 is useful when the first sheet is a cover you are skipping anyway.
- Which position should I choose?
- Bottom centre is the safe default and works for almost every document. Bottom right suits single-sided reports and matches most word processors. Top corners are worth using when the bottom of your pages already has a footer, a signature block or a scanned edge that the number would collide with.
- What happens on pages that are rotated or a different size?
- The number is placed correctly on each page individually. The tool reads every page’s own dimensions and rotation, so a landscape sheet or a sideways scan in the middle of a portrait document still gets its number in the corner you chose rather than off the edge.
- Is the numbering permanent, and is my file uploaded?
- The numbers are drawn into the page content, so they are permanent and will print and display everywhere. Nothing is uploaded — your browser reads the PDF, draws the numbers and builds the download on your device, leaving your original file untouched.
About this tool
Page numbers are one of those things a document only misses when it matters — a court filing, a tender, a thesis, a contract being read across a table, or any stack of paper that someone has to reassemble after dropping it. This tool stamps them onto an existing PDF without needing the original Word file or a paid editor.
The options cover the cases that actually come up. Six positions let you avoid whatever is already at the bottom of your pages. Three styles give you a bare number, Page 7, or 7 of 12 depending on how formal the document is. Start at handles files that continue from an earlier part, and Skip the first page keeps cover sheets clean — the two together produce the standard arrangement where the title page is unnumbered and the page after it reads 1.
Placement is worked out per page rather than once for the whole file, which matters more than it sounds. Real documents mix portrait and landscape sheets, and scanned ones often contain a page rotated ninety degrees. Because each page’s own size and rotation are read before the number is drawn, those pages get their number in the corner you asked for instead of somewhere off the edge or on its side.
The numbers become part of the page content, so they survive printing, flattening, emailing and merging into a bigger document. Everything is done in your browser with no upload and no account, and your original PDF is left exactly as it was on disk — if a size or position turns out wrong, drop the original back in and stamp it again.