Add Watermark
Add Watermark is for draft, confidential, or sample labels. The mark is drawn as page content you can preview before saving.
Privacy and offline checks
Document processing runs locally in supported PDFForge workflows. This panel is a diagnostic view; it cannot prove that no data left the device.
Observed resource activity
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Verify independently in DevTools
- Use a clean browser profile and synthetic documents. Open Network in DevTools and enable Preserve log.
- Prepare offline below. Switch Network to Offline, then reload the saved workspace and select a new file.
- Inspect, redact, run output checks and download. Inspect failed requests and request payloads, including worker requests. A same-site request can still transmit data.
- Inspect Application or Storage. Cache Storage should contain public app assets and setup records only. Document recovery and content telemetry are disabled; recipe settings are saved only after opt-in.
Offline readiness
Full workspace not prepared for offline use
English OCR not prepared for offline use
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Open saved workspaceReady for local work · One heavy job at a time in this tab
Drop your PDF file here, or browse
Supports standard PDF documents • Up to 100 MB
Private by design. Document processing runs in this browser. PDFForge has no document upload API.
How it works
How Add Watermark works
Add Watermark is for draft, confidential, or sample labels. The mark is drawn as page content you can preview before saving.
Guided steps
How to use Add Watermark
- 1Open the PDF you want to mark.
- 2Enter watermark text and set opacity, position, and rotation.
- 3Preview the stamp on a page.
- 4Process locally and download the watermarked PDF.
In this tab
What stays in this browser
The file stays in this tab.
- What this tool reads
- One PDF and the watermark text, opacity, position, and rotation you set.
- What the download contains
- One PDF with that text drawn on the pages.
Questions
Add Watermark FAQs
Is a watermark the same as encryption?
No. A watermark is visible labeling. Use Password Protect PDF if you need AES-256 access control.
Can I use an image logo instead of text?
This tool stamps text only. Image watermarks are not in the current local feature set.
Does PDFForge add its own watermark?
No. Output contains only the text you enter.
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