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Add Header & Footer to PDF for students

Updated July 2026

Arthize lets students add a header or footer to a PDF in a private workspace — free, with no watermark. Adding a header or footer stamps consistent text — titles, dates, file references — into the top or bottom margin of every page.

Why students add a header or footer to a PDF

The night before a deadline, a student merges lecture slides with their notes, compresses a scanned reading under the portal's 10MB limit, and annotates the key pages for revision — free, with no watermark on the result.

Built for lecture slides. Whether it's lecture slides, readings, assignments, Arthize's add header & footer to pdf keeps the work inside your private workspace. Students often work on shared or library computers; a tool that processes files privately and deletes them keeps coursework and ID scans out of strangers' hands.

What matters when you add a header or footer to a PDF

Headers and footers stamp repeated text into the page margins.

They are useful for titles, dates and document references.

The stamp is written into the file.

How to add a header or footer to a PDF

  1. 1

    Open the tool

    Sign in and open the header/footer tool.

  2. 2

    Add your PDF

    Upload the document.

  3. 3

    Set the text

    Enter header and footer text and position it.

  4. 4

    Download

    Get the stamped PDF.

Common questions

How do students add a header or footer to a PDF for free?
Adding a header or footer stamps consistent text — titles, dates, file references — into the top or bottom margin of every page. On Arthize it's free with no watermark, and the file is deleted after the job — which is why students can use it for lecture slides without a confidentiality risk.
Is it private to add a header or footer to a PDF sensitive lecture slides?
Yes. Students often work on shared or library computers; a tool that processes files privately and deletes them keeps coursework and ID scans out of strangers' hands. Files are processed inside your private Arthize workspace and deleted after the job.
How do I add a header and footer to a PDF?
Adding a header or footer stamps consistent text — titles, dates, file references — into the top or bottom margin of every page. On Arthize it's free with no watermark and processed privately.
Can I add a date to every page?
Adding a header or footer stamps consistent text — titles, dates, file references — into the top or bottom margin of every page. On Arthize it's free with no watermark and processed privately.

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