Add Header and Footer to PDF Online, Free Tool

The Add Header and Footer tool on OneDocPDF provides a fast and professional way to stamp custom headers and footers onto every page of your PDF. Whether you need to add a company name, document title, page numbers, or a date, this tool gives you full control over the content and positioning of your header and footer text.

Adding headers and footers to a PDF is essential for professional documents. Reports, legal contracts, invoices, academic papers, and business proposals all benefit from consistent page stamping that identifies the document and helps readers navigate through it. Our tool supports left, centre, and right text positions for both the header and footer independently.

Unlike many online tools, our free header and footer editor processes everything locally inside your browser using pdf-lib. Your PDF is never sent to any server. You can also customise the font size, text colour, and margin distance from the page edge, giving you precise control over how your final document looks.

For documents that also need cleaning before stamping, our Remove Blank Pages tool will automatically detect and delete empty pages before you apply your header and footer. This ensures your page numbers are accurate and your document is clean.

After stamping, you may want to reduce file size. Our PDF Compressor can significantly reduce the file size of your stamped PDF while maintaining quality ideal for email attachments and uploading to portals.

If your workflow involves converting PDF content for editing, our PDF to Word converter transforms PDF files into fully editable DOCX documents useful for reports and contracts that need modification before headers and footers are applied.

You can also fix page orientation issues using our Rotate PDF tool before applying headers and footers. Correcting orientation first ensures your stamps appear in the right direction on every page.

OneDocPDF is designed to provide a complete ecosystem of browser-based PDF utilities. Whether you need to add headers, remove blank pages, compress documents, or merge multiple PDFs, our platform offers simple solutions that help streamline document workflows for students, professionals, and businesses.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What content can I add to the header and footer?

You can add any custom text to the left, centre, and right positions of both the header and footer independently. You can also enable automatic page numbers (shown as "Page X of Y") and today's date all configurable per zone.

2. Can I customise the font size and colour?

Yes. Both the header and footer have independent font size and text colour settings. You can also adjust the margin distance from the top or bottom edge of the page.

3. Is this tool free to use?

Yes. The tool on OneDocPDF is completely free and requires no registration or subscription.

4. Are my files secure?

Absolutely. All processing occurs locally inside your browser using pdf-lib. Your file is never uploaded or stored on any external server.

5. What other tools can I use alongside this one?

You can combine this tool with Remove Blank Pages, PDF Compressor, Merge PDF, Rotate PDF, or Sign PDF.