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Add Text & Image Watermark to PDF Online

Apply highly customizable text or logo watermarks to multiple PDF files in batch. Adjust angle, opacity, color, and layer settings to protect your intellectual property. Combine watermarking with PDF/A archiving, metadata sanitization, encryption, and flattening simultaneously in a single session.

🛡️ Zero cloud storage ⚡ Deleted after download 🔒 Encrypted transit (HTTPS) 🤖 No AI — 100% deterministic 🇪🇺 GDPR Compliant 📄 Secure Batch processing
🔒 Prefer 100% offline processing with no internet required? Download Desktop App
Step 1
Upload Your Files
Drag & drop or click to select — files (limits depend on your license level).
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Drag & Drop files here
or click to browse folder or files
Supported Formats: PDF, DOCX / DOC, XLSX / XLS / XLSM, CSV, TXT, PNG / JPG / JPEG, PPTX / PPT
⚙️ PDF & Document Operations
Choose operations to modify, protect, or convert your files. You can select multiple options to run in sequence.
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Remove Signatures
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Strip digital signatures, certified locks, fields, and editing restrictions. Supports PDF only.
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Sanitize Metadata
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Remove author, creation date, software fingerprints, GPS and hidden metadata. Supports PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, Images, PPTX.
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Rebuild & Repair PDF
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Fix corrupted, broken or malformed PDF structures. Also makes scanned text selectable & copiable via built-in OCR. Supports PDF only.
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Add Watermark
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Stamp a diagonal text watermark onto every page of your document. Supports PDF only.
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Encrypt PDF
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Password-protect your PDF with 256-bit AES encryption. Supports PDF only.
Find & Redact
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Permanently remove sensitive text from your document. Supports PDF only.
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Convert PDF to Image-only (Flatten)
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Convert every page into a raster image inside a PDF. Supports PDF only.
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Convert Any Format to PDF
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Convert Word (DOCX/DOC), Excel (XLSX/XLS), PowerPoint (PPTX), Text (TXT) and Images (JPG/PNG/WEBP) to PDF in batch. Supports multiple formats.
Convert Any Document or Format to PDF Free Online
📋 Reports & Summaries
Generate structured Excel/PDF summaries, file lists, and detailed folder audits.
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PDF Bundle Summary
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Generates a professional Excel + PDF + CSV report for the folder with page counts and metadata. Supports PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT.
📁 Folder upload 📊 Excel + PDF
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Advanced Bundle Report
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Generates a detailed folder report with SHA-256 signatures, size, format, and last modified dates. Supports PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT.
📁 Folder upload 🔖 Extended Metadata
Compliance & Long-Term Archiving
Standardize files to ISO 19005 compliance standards for legal courts, notary submissions, and long-term digital retention.
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PDF/A Archival Converter
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Convert Word, Excel, Images, and PDFs to standardized PDF/A-2b (ISO 19005-2). Automatically embeds all system fonts, strips active layers (JS), maps color profiles, and injects compliant XML metadata. Supports Word, Excel, Images, PDF.
📁 Batch Upload 📜 ISO 19005-2
🏛️ PDF/A Archival Settings (ISO 19005)
Text Recognition (OCR)
ℹ️ ISO 19005 Standard: All fonts are permanently embedded. JavaScript, encryption, and external links are removed. Documents will render identically for 50+ years. Files that cannot be archived are placed in the error folder with a detailed log.
Sanitize Settings
Watermark Settings
60pt
15%
Encryption Settings
Redaction Settings

ℹ️ The entire page text layer is removed to guarantee no sensitive content remains (image-only output).

⚠️ Note: If your PDF is an image or scanned document, text cannot be found. We recommend selecting "Rebuild & Repair PDF" alongside Redact for OCR, but this will increase processing time.

Rebuild Settings
PDF Bundle Summary Settings
Generates a simple Excel + PDF report of document page counts. No additional configuration required.
Advanced Bundle Report Settings
Generates a detailed folder report including Format, Size, SHA-256 signatures, Protection, and Last Write Time. No additional configuration required.
Convert to PDF Settings
📄 Auto-converting Word (.docx/.doc) and Text (.txt) files. No additional parameters required.
Global Processing Options
Processing your files…
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Technical Architecture

How the Watermark Engine Works

DocInspector applies watermarks at the vector level, preserving document resolution while locking intellectual property.

1 Vector Layer Injection

Unlike simple image overlays, DocInspector embeds watermarks directly into the PDF's content stream as native vector elements or high-resolution rasters. This prevents easy removal by standard PDF editors while keeping text selectable under the watermark.

2 Opacity & Multi-Pass Overlay

Control precisely how visible your watermark is. The engine calculates contrast adjustments to ensure the watermark remains readable on both white pages and dark backgrounds, without obstructing the underlying text.

3 Batch Pipelines

Run watermarking on entire directory structures. You can watermark a folder while flattening its layers and encrypting it with a password all in a single action, keeping the original folder layout.

Security Architecture

How We Protect Your Documents

Our online tool is built on the same isolation principles as the desktop app. Here is the exact data flow from your browser to the processed output.

💻 Your Browser
🔑 Encrypted HTTPS Upload
⚙️ Isolated Sandbox
🗑️ Immediate Auto-Delete
📥 Secure Download

Our Security Commitments

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No Persistent Storage
Files are stored only in RAM or a short-lived temp directory. Deleted automatically 5 minutes after processing — or immediately upon download.
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Encrypted in Transit
All uploads and downloads use HTTPS/TLS. Your document never travels in plaintext over the network.
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No AI, No Training
We use deterministic CLI tools (qpdf, ExifTool, Ghostscript). Your documents are never fed into any machine learning model.
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GDPR Compliant
We don't collect, store or log file contents. Processing is stateless and private by design.
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Open CLI Engines
ExifTool, qpdf, Ghostscript — battle-tested open-source tools used worldwide by security professionals.
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Audit-Ready Logs
For the desktop app: every operation is logged with timestamp and SHA-256 hash for full chain-of-custody.

Text & Image PDF Watermarking Engine

📘 Detailed Technical Guide

Apply custom logo or text overlays to your documents in batch. Under the watermark settings, you can define font family, size, angle (-90 to 90 degrees), opacity (0 to 100%), and placement. Process entire directories recursively while maintaining your folder layout. Combine watermarking with flattening, sanitizing metadata, or password protection in a single pipeline.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Can I remove watermarks later?

If you flattened the PDF after watermarking, the watermark becomes part of the page image and cannot be removed. Without flattening, it is embedded in the content stream.

❓ Does watermarking affect PDF size?

No, vector text watermarks add less than 1 KB per page. Image logos may increase size slightly depending on image resolution.

Need more power?

Unlock higher limits, batch processing of thousands of files, folder trees, multi-action pipelines and advanced reporting. Choose the plan that fits your workflow.