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Professional documents — legal agreements, academic research papers, business reports, government applications, and technical manuals — require page numbers for referencing, navigation, and formal presentation standards. Submitting a multi-page PDF to a court, university, or corporate HR department without page numbers can result in rejection or requests for resubmission. Page numbers also make large documents significantly easier to review during meetings, audits, or examinations.
GS DocSeva's page numbering tool inserts numbers directly into each PDF page's content stream using pdf-lib, ensuring the numbers appear correctly in all PDF viewers — Adobe Acrobat, Chrome PDF viewer, Foxit, and mobile readers alike. Unlike watermark-based approaches that can be removed, these numbers are embedded as actual page content.
Add mandatory page numbers to affidavits, contracts, and court submissions that require sequential page references.
Number thesis chapters, research papers, and assignment PDFs for university submissions that require standard pagination.
Add professional page footers to business plans, project proposals, and investor decks before formal presentation.
Number document bundles before submitting to government departments that require indexed, paginated file sets.
| Option | Available Choices | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Position | 6 positions (top/bottom × left/center/right) | Match document style guides |
| Format | Plain (1), Page X of Y, Dash padded (-1-) | Legal docs prefer "Page X of Y" |
| Starting Number | Any integer (0 to 9999) | Continuation from previous document |
| Font Size | 6pt to 24pt | Smaller for subtle footers, larger for accessibility |
| Color | Dark gray, black, light gray, blue | Match document branding |
Yes. Six positions are available: bottom-center, bottom-left, bottom-right, top-center, top-left, and top-right.
Plain numbers (1, 2, 3), page-of-total format (Page 1 of 10), and dash-padded format (-1-, -2-).
Yes. Set any starting number — useful when this document continues from another one.
No. All processing is done locally in your browser using pdf-lib. Your file never leaves your device.