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PDF Watermark

Stamp text like DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL across every page. Place it once in the centre, or tile it across the whole page so it cannot be cropped out easily.

PDF Watermark tool

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How to use the PDF Watermark

  1. Add a PDF

    Drop one PDF onto the upload area.

  2. Write your watermark text

    Type the words you want stamped on each page.

  3. Style and position it

    Adjust size, colour, angle and opacity. Centred places one mark per page; tiled repeats it across the whole page.

  4. Apply and download

    Press Add Watermark and download the stamped document.

Where your files are processed

Your files are processed locally in your browser and are not uploaded to our servers.

The PDF Watermark runs as JavaScript on the page you are reading. When you choose a file, the browser hands it to that code directly — it is never put into a network request, so there is no upload to cancel, no copy sitting in a queue somewhere, and nothing for us to delete afterwards. We could not see your file if we wanted to.

You can verify this rather than take our word for it: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and run the tool. You will see no request carrying your file. Better still, once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the internet entirely and the PDF Watermark will keep working — which it could not do if it depended on a server.

To be exact about what doesleave the page: like the rest of this site, it loads analytics, which record that a tool was opened and whether it succeeded. Those events carry the tool’s name and a duration — never a file, a file name, or anything read out of your file. The tool panel above is also excluded from session recording, so nothing shown inside it is captured either.

Frequently asked questions

It is drawn into the page content rather than added as a separate annotation layer, so it cannot simply be toggled off in a reader. It is not tamper-proof, though — anyone determined enough with a PDF editor can work around it. Treat it as a clear label, not as security.

Between 15% and 30% usually reads clearly as a watermark while leaving the underlying text comfortable to read. Above 50% it starts to compete with the content.

Not in this tool — it stamps text only. For logos on pictures, use the Image Watermark tool, which supports both text and logo overlays.

Yes. The watermark is drawn on top of whatever the page contains, whether that is text or a scanned image.

The watermark uses a standard PDF font covering the Latin alphabet, digits and common punctuation. Non-Latin scripts and unusual symbols may not render.

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Credits

The file-processing behind this tool is adapted from DoxDock by Mithun Srinivas, used under the MIT Licence. Rebuilt here in TypeScript for this site.

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