How to watermark many PDF files at the same time

Avi Parshan
4 min readSep 11, 2023

I needed to add a watermark to 15 PDFs’ at the same time and didn’t want to go through each individual file and merge it with the watermark.

Additionally, if you do not have an Adobe Creative Cloud license it becomes a bit of a challenge to modify PDF files (As Adobe Acrobat DC locks down features for free users).

This is my watermark file, in yours you can be more subtle and change the color to light gray as well as decrease the opacity

Hello World Watermark

Here is a sample (original) file:

and here is the end result!

Now, this same process can be done over and over for hundreds of files with this tutorial!

Firstly, you will need to create a single page PDF with your watermark or signature (This wont be covered in the tutorial).

Next, you will need to put the “source/original” documents in a folder that your code can access.

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