Number PDF pages on your computer

Add page numbers to your PDF choosing position, format and starting number. Free, unlimited, and no file ever gets uploaded to a server.

100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.

  1. Upload your PDF - it opens locally on your computer
  2. Choose position, format and starting number
  3. Download the numbered PDF

What Add page numbers does

Add page numbers stamps a number on every page of a PDF, on your own computer. You choose where it goes, how it reads and which number the first page carries, and the document is written back out with the numbers drawn as real text on the page.

They are drawn, not overlaid as annotations. That means the numbers print, they survive being flattened, merged or converted, and a reader can select and search them like any other text on the page. They are set in an embedded font at eleven points, in a dark grey rather than pure black, twenty-eight points in from the edge of the page.

Pages that carry a rotation are handled properly. A page turned ninety degrees gets its number in the corner you actually see, the right way up, not in the corner it would have had before it was turned.

How to number the pages of a PDF

  1. Add the PDF. It opens locally and the numbering screen appears.
  2. Pick the position. There are six: bottom left, bottom centre, bottom right, top left, top centre and top right.
  3. Pick the format and the starting number. The numbers can read 1, 2, 3 and so on, or 1 of 12, and the first page can start at any number you like.
  4. Press Add page numbers and download the result. It carries the suffix _numbered and the original on your disk is untouched.

What you can set and what is fixed

The tool is deliberately short on options: it does one job and gets out of the way. This is everything it lets you decide, and everything it decides for you.

Privacy: the numbering happens in your browser

The PDF is read and rewritten by a library running inside your browser tab. It is never uploaded, and no page is sent anywhere. The only thing your browser fetches is OléPDF's own code from its own domain.

That is what makes it usable for the documents that normally need numbering: tenders, contracts, court bundles and reports that have to be quoted page by page.

Typical uses

Frequently asked questions

Is adding page numbers free?

Yes. Numbering one PDF at a time is free and unlimited, with no account and no watermark. Numbering several documents in a single run requires the 7-Day Pass or Pro.

Can the numbering start at something other than 1?

Yes. You set the number the first page carries, so a document that continues another one can pick up exactly where it left off.

Will the numbers print?

Yes. They are drawn into the page as text, not attached as comments or annotations, so they print, they survive conversion, and they can be selected and searched.

What happens on pages that are rotated?

The number lands in the corner you see, the right way up. The tool reads each page's rotation and places the text accordingly instead of ignoring it.

Can I skip the cover page?

No. Every page in the document gets a number. If the cover must stay clean, split it off with Split PDF, number the rest, and join them again with Merge PDF.

Is my document uploaded?

No. The numbering runs on your computer, inside the browser tab, and the PDF never reaches a server.

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