Add Page Numbers to PDF

A professional document without page numbers is hard to navigate, hard to reference, and easy to misorder after printing. Whether you're finalising a report, preparing a legal brief, submitting a thesis, or assembling a proposal, clean page numbers signal that your document is production-ready. FileVelo adds them to any PDF in seconds — entirely in your browser, at zero cost.

FileVelo gives you precise control over the numbering output. Choose from four positions: Bottom Center (the most common choice for formal documents), Bottom Right, Bottom Left, or Top Center. Set any starting number — useful when your PDF is one chapter of a larger multi-part document where page numbering should continue from a previous section rather than restart at one. A live thumbnail preview updates instantly as you adjust the settings, so you can see exactly how the output will look before generating it.

All processing runs locally in your browser using pdf-lib, a production-grade JavaScript PDF library. Your file is never transmitted to any external server. Sensitive documents — contracts, financial statements, academic submissions, medical records — are handled with complete privacy. There is no upload, no cloud queue, and no data logged. The moment you close the tab, all file references are gone from memory.

FileVelo's page-number engine places numbers directly onto the PDF page using embedded font rendering, producing a clean, standards-compliant result that prints and displays correctly in every PDF viewer. The original page content — text, images, annotations, and vector graphics — is preserved without any resampling or re-encoding. The numbered output is ready to share, print, or archive the moment it downloads.