Number the pages of a PDF in your browser: six positions, formats like "Page 1 of N", any start number, a page range and an option to skip the cover.
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Works in your browser. What you paste or upload is processed on your device.
Drop the PDF on the tool or tap to pick it. It opens on your device and the first page appears in the preview.
Choose one of six spots and a format such as Page 1 of N. The preview updates as you change them.
Set the start number, type a page range if only some pages need numbers, or tick Skip the first page for a cover.
Set the font size, margin, font and colour. Use the page arrows to check other pages.
Press Add page numbers. The numbered PDF is ready to download a moment later.
This tool writes page numbers onto the pages of an existing PDF. You choose where they go (top or bottom, left, centre or right), how they read (1, Page 1, Page 1 of N or 1/N), the number to start from, the font size, the distance from the edge in millimetres, and which pages get a number. A live preview shows the number on the real page before anything is written.
The numbers are added as real text in a standard PDF font, on top of the existing page content, so they print crisply and can be selected like any other text. Pages that are turned sideways in the file are handled, so the number sits upright where you expect it. If a PDF is password-protected you can enter the password; the numbered copy is saved without one.
Limits: the number is drawn over whatever is already in that spot, so if a page has a footer there, pick another position or a larger margin. The tool doesn't renumber the PDF's internal page labels (the numbers some readers show in their toolbar), and it doesn't do legal Bates numbering with prefixes.
Numbered pages make long reports, theses, contracts and scanned bundles easy to cite and review ("see page 14"), and printers and courts often ask for them. Doing it in the browser means a confidential document never has to be uploaded to a stranger's server just to get numbers in the footer.
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No. The PDF is opened and numbered by your browser on your own device. Our server only counts that a run happened, so it can apply the daily free run; it never receives the file.
Yes. Tick Skip the first page and numbering starts on page 2 with your start number. For anything more specific, type a range such as 3-40 and only those pages get numbers.
N is the last number the tool prints. With 10 numbered pages starting at 1, N is 10. If you start at 21 to continue another document, the last page reads Page 30 of 30.
They are drawn on top of the page, so they can overlap text already in that spot. The preview shows exactly where they land; move them to another position or increase the margin if they collide.
Yes. It works in Safari and Chrome on phones. Pick the PDF from Files or Downloads, set the options and download the numbered copy back to your phone.
Files up to 100 MB can be chosen. Very long PDFs (hundreds of pages) work but take longer and need more memory, so a computer is the better choice for those.
Each tool gives you 1 free run per day. After that, each run costs 5 credits from a free AI Rank Lab account. A run is one press of Add page numbers, however many pages the PDF has.
Each one opens on its own page and works straight away, with no sign-up.
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