Add Page Numbers

How to use Add Page Numbers

1. Open Add Page Numbers — no sign-up or software download is required.
2. Drag and drop your file(s) into the tool, or click to browse and select them from your device.
3. Choose any options you need, such as order, quality, page range or output format.
4. Click the action button and let the tool process everything locally in your browser.
5. Download the finished file. Your originals are never changed or uploaded.

Why use Add Page Numbers?

• 100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
• Private by design — your files are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
• Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
• Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
• Part of a full pdf tools suite, so related add page numbers pdf tasks are one click away.

What people use Add Page Numbers for

• Numbering a document assembled from several sources for a court or tender submission.
• Adding page numbers to a scanned document that has none.
• Numbering a merged bundle so references in a covering letter work.

Add Page Numbers: limits and things worth knowing

• Numbering counts PDF pages from the start, so a document with unnumbered front matter will show a mismatch against any printed numbering already on the page. Set a starting offset where that matters.
• The number is drawn onto the page as new content, so it becomes part of the document rather than a reader setting.
• Choose a position with clear margin. On a tightly cropped scan the number can overlap existing text, and there is no automatic collision detection.
• For legal bundles requiring sequential identifiers across many files, Bates numbering is the correct convention rather than simple page numbers.

Is it private and secure?

Your privacy is built in. Add Page Numbers does all processing on your own device using client-side code, so your files are never transmitted, stored or seen by anyone — including us.

Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.

You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.

We also measured the competition. Our PDF upload audit recorded how many bytes each of 20 online PDF tools actually transmits: 12 of the 13 measurable services uploaded the whole test file, and Filevane transmitted 0.00 MB.

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