PDF Tools

Stamp text across a PDF

Mark a document as a draft, put a copyright line on every page, or name the person you are sending it to. Set the wording, angle and opacity, and it is written into the file.

Add one PDF and stamp text across the pages — a draft marker, a copyright line, or a name on a document you are sending out.

Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use
  • Up to 50 files

How it works

01

Drawn into the page

The text becomes part of the page content, not an annotation layered on top, so it survives being printed, flattened or opened in a viewer that ignores annotations.

02

Opacity is the whole trick

A watermark has to be visible without making the document unreadable. Around 15-25% is where most land; the preview settings let you find yours.

03

Diagonal, centred, or along the bottom

Diagonal is the classic draft stamp. Along the bottom suits a copyright or a filename.

What it does

Any wording

DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, a name, a date, a case number.

Full control of the look

Position, size, colour and opacity, all adjustable before anything is written.

Whole document or some pages

Leave the range blank for everything, or stamp only the pages that need it.

On your device

The document you are marking confidential is not uploaded to mark it confidential.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Grey at low opacity reads as a watermark. Black at low opacity often just looks like a printing fault.
  • Keep the text short — a long line at a large size runs off the page rather than wrapping.
  • A watermark deters casual copying. It is not security: anyone determined can remove it, and it does not stop the text underneath being selected.
  • For sending the same document to several people, stamping each with the recipient’s name is a genuinely useful habit.

Questions

Things people ask

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read into memory in your browser and everything happens there. There is no upload endpoint, and nothing on the page that can read your content, and a Content Security Policy allows no upload destination at all.

That also means the file never sits on someone else’s server waiting to be deleted, which is the part most people are actually worried about with a contract or an invoice.

Can the watermark be removed?

By someone who wants to, yes. It is drawn into the page rather than added as an annotation, which makes it much harder than deleting a layer — but a PDF is an editable format and nothing stamped onto it is permanent.

Treat it as a deterrent and a label, not as protection.

Can I use an image or a logo?

Not on this tool — it stamps text. To place a logo or a signature image, use the PDF signing tool, which puts an image where you click.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

Documents are only half the job

If the PDFs are going on a website, the site has to be worth landing on. KUDUY builds the pages around them — design, development and the SEO that gets them found.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.