Add a header and footer to a PDF
Stamp a header and footer onto every page of a PDF — a title, a company name, a confidentiality notice or anything you like. Choose the text and alignment, then download the result, all in your browser.
How to use Add Header & Footer to PDF
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Add your PDF
Drag a PDF into the drop area, or click to browse for one.
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Enter the text
Type a header, a footer, or both — leave either blank to skip it.
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Pick the alignment
Align the running text left, center or right.
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Download
Apply it and download the PDF with the header and footer on every page.
Add a consistent header and footer
Headers and footers give a document a finished, professional identity and carry information that belongs on every page: a title, an author or company name, a date, a status like 'Draft' or 'Confidential', or a reference code. The trouble is that a finished PDF is hard to edit, so adding this running text after the fact usually means going back to the source document — if you even still have it — and regenerating the file. This tool lets you stamp a header and footer straight onto an existing PDF instead. You enter the text you want, and it adds it to every page in one step, top and bottom, so the whole document carries the same running information consistently. Whether you are labelling a report, marking a draft, branding a handout or adding a notice to a contract, you get the header and footer applied across the entire file without touching the original source, in a matter of seconds.
Header, footer, or both
Different documents call for different running text, so this tool lets you add a header, a footer, or both, depending on what you need. You might want only a footer with a company name and nothing at the top, only a header marking the document as confidential, or both — a title up top and a reference or page note at the bottom. You simply fill in the fields you want and leave the others blank, and the tool stamps exactly what you provided onto every page. This flexibility means it adapts to whatever convention your document follows rather than imposing a fixed structure. The text is placed near the top and bottom margins so it sits cleanly above and below the main content without interfering with it. Being able to choose which of the two you use, and what each says, makes the tool suitable for the full range of common needs, from a single discreet footer line to a fully labelled document with running text at both the head and foot of every page.
Choose the alignment that fits
Where running text sits horizontally is part of a document's look, so the tool lets you align the header and footer to the left, the center or the right. Centered text suits titles and formal notices that should feel balanced on the page. Left-aligned text is common for names, references and dates that read naturally from the margin. Right-aligned text fits certain styles and pairs well with content that leads from the left. The alignment you pick applies to both the header and footer, giving the document a consistent, deliberate appearance rather than text that looks arbitrarily placed. With sensible margins keeping the text a comfortable distance from the edges, the result looks like running text that was meant to be there. This small amount of control is what makes the difference between a header and footer that look like a polished part of the document and ones that feel like an afterthought stamped on without care, and it takes only a tap to set.
Private by design — applied in your browser
The documents that get headers and footers are often exactly the ones you would not want to upload: contracts marked confidential, internal reports, drafts, branded client materials. Sending such a file to a server just to add a line of running text would expose the whole document unnecessarily. In1 adds the header and footer entirely in your browser, modifying the PDF on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no account or sign-up. Because there is no upload step, the process is fast and works exactly the same offline as online. This local-only approach is especially fitting given that a common use is stamping documents as confidential — it would be self-defeating to upload a confidential file to do so. You get the convenience of an instant tool with the assurance that your PDF never leaves your computer. Add headers and footers to as many PDFs as you like, free and without watermarks, with every document handled privately on your own machine.
Who adds headers and footers to PDFs?
The need is common in professional document work. Businesses add company names, logos-in-text, dates and reference codes to reports, proposals and deliverables so every page is branded and traceable. Legal and compliance staff stamp 'Confidential', 'Draft' or matter references onto contracts and filings. People preparing handouts, manuals and guides add titles and section names as running headers. Authors and editors mark drafts and add working titles. Administrators add document control information — version, date, owner — to the foot of every page. Anyone who receives a finished PDF and needs to label it consistently, without the original editable source, has a use for a tool that stamps running text directly onto the file. Because it lets you add a header, a footer or both, choose the text and the alignment, and does it instantly and privately in the browser, it covers everything from a discreet footer line to a fully labelled, branded or marked-up document, exactly as the situation requires.
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