Add header and footer to PDF

Add professional headers and footers to your PDF documents with page numbers, dates, and custom text.

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Upload your PDF document

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Configure header and footer text

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Common Use Cases

Professional reports

Add company name headers and page numbers to business documents.

Legal documents

Include case numbers, dates, and page references in legal PDFs.

Academic papers

Add running headers with paper titles and section names.

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Upload your PDF to our free online tool, set your header and footer text with positioning options, preview the changes, and download the modified PDF instantly. No signup required.

Yes. Use the page variable for the current page number and the pages variable for the total. For example, “Page {page} of {pages}” shows as “Page 1 of 10”.

You can use {page} for the current page number, {pages} for the total page count, and {date} for the current date. They are replaced automatically when the PDF is processed.

Yes. Turn on Skip first page to leave the first page without a header or footer. That is useful for title pages and covers.

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