Add page numbers
Number the pages, in any of nine positions and any of five notations.
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Or paste them, or pick them from this device. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in this tab.
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The number goes where {n} is. Also understood: {n}, {total}, {filename}, {date}.
1, 2, 3.
The number the first numbered page carries.
Which pages carry a number. Counting starts at the first of them.
Helvetica.
Advanced
A TrueType or OpenType font to set the text in. Needed for anything the built-in typefaces cannot draw — Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese. The file is read here, in this tab, and embedded in the PDF.
Add the numbers
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What this does
This numbers the pages in any of nine positions, in Arabic numerals, Roman numerals or letters, starting from a number you choose and skipping the pages you say — so a document with a cover and two pages of front matter can start its numbering at the introduction and still call it page one.
What it will not do
Every tool here says what it cannot do, in its own words, before you rely on it.
- The number is drawn on top of the page, so a page whose content already reaches the edge is written over rather than reflowed.
- Shaping and joining come from the font itself, and nothing reorders a line: text is drawn in the order it is given, so a line mixing right-to-left and left-to-right writing comes out in that order rather than in reading order.
Questions people ask
Can I start numbering after the cover?
Yes. Choose which pages are numbered, and separately what number the first of them takes — so the cover and contents can be skipped while the introduction becomes page one.
Can I put text around the number?
Yes. The format takes {n} for the number and {total} for the count, so "Page {n} of {total}" comes out as you would expect.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The work happens in this browser tab, on your own machine. There is no server in this product to send a file to, which is why the promise is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust: open your browser's network panel and watch it do the work without making a request.
Is there a size limit, or a limit on how many files?
None that we impose. The limit is your own machine's memory, because that is where the work happens — a few hundred megabytes is comfortable on a laptop, and less on a phone. There is no daily task counter, no queue and no account.
What does it cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no paid tier that unlocks features: the whole product is the free one. That is affordable because running it costs us nothing — your computer does the work — so there is no per-file cost to recover, no advertising and no data to sell.