Add page numbers to any PDF.
Stamp sequential page numbers onto every page. Choose position, format, and starting number. Runs entirely in your browser.
Why add page numbers to a PDF?
Page numbers are essential for any document that will be printed, referenced, or shared professionally. Without them, readers cannot navigate back to a specific section after a meeting, reviewers cannot pinpoint where a comment applies, and print shops cannot assemble collated sets in order. A document without page numbers signals that it was not finished.
Many documents are assembled by combining exports from different software — a report body from Word, appendices from Excel, cover pages from a design tool. Each source may have its own page numbering, or none at all. Adding consistent page numbers after merging gives the final PDF a unified, professional structure.
Numbering options explained
Foliopress offers several position options: bottom center (the most common), bottom right, bottom left, top center, top right, and top left. Bottom center is conventional for most documents. Top corners are common in academic papers. Legal documents often use bottom right.
The format options control what text is printed. "1" produces a bare number. "Page 1" adds the word before it. "1 / 12" shows the current page alongside the total. "Page 1 of 12" is the most explicit and works best for documents where readers may be working from printed copies that could become separated.
You can choose any starting number. If your document is a chapter that begins at page 47 of a larger work, start the numbering at 47. Pages to skip lets you exclude a cover page or a table of contents from being numbered — for example, skip page 1 so numbering begins visibly on page 2, while that first page remains clean.
Privacy
The page numbering tool reads your PDF locally, stamps the numbers using pdf-lib's text rendering, and generates the output entirely in your browser. No data is transmitted to any server. The result is downloaded directly to your device.