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Add DRAFT Watermark to PDF

One-click 'DRAFT' watermark - red, diagonal, 30% opacity, applied to every page. Mark documents as work-in-progress before sharing internally for review. Customizable: change DRAFT to FINAL, REVIEW, NOT FINAL, CONFIDENTIAL, COPY, or any other text without re-configuring.

When to use this

Use for: sending pre-final reports / proposals for stakeholder review, internal drafts of contracts pending legal sign-off, working drafts of academic papers shared for peer review, distributable previews where you don't want the file used as the final version.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the recipient remove the watermark?

Anyone with a PDF editor can remove watermarks since they're added as annotation layers. To make the watermark unremovable, use the Flatten PDF tool after watermarking - flattening merges the watermark into the page content permanently.

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Other targeted versions of this tool — each tuned for a specific use case.

Or use the main Watermark PDF if your use case isn't covered above.