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PDF Watermark

Stamp your company logo or 'CONFIDENTIAL' text onto every page of a PDF.

Document ⭐⭐ Intermediate ⏱️ 5 minutes

😫 The Pain Point

You are sending a draft contract. You want β€œDRAFT” stamped diagonally across every page so it can’t be used officially. Word has watermarks, but once it’s a PDF, you can’t add them easily without paid software.

πŸš€ Agentic Solution

The Stamper: Overlays one PDF (the watermark) onto another PDF (the content).

Key Features:

  • Overlay: Places the watermark on top of the text (or behind it).
  • Batch: Stamps 100 contracts at once.

βš”οΈ Phase 1: Commander (Quick Fix)

For a quick stamp.

Prompt:

β€œI have watermark.pdf (contains the logo) and content.pdf. Merge the watermark page over every page of content.pdf using PyPDF2. Save as watermarked.pdf.”

Result: Protected document.

πŸ—οΈ Phase 2: Architect (Permanent Tool)

For Legal Teams.

Engineering Prompt:

**Role:** Python PDF Developer
**Task:** Create a "Batch PDF Watermarker".
**Requirements:**
1.  **GUI:**
    *   Select Input PDF(s).
    *   Select Watermark File (Must be a PDF).
    *   "Stamp" button.
2.  **Logic:**
    *   Load Watermark page object.
    *   Iterate Input PDF pages.
    *   `page.merge_page(watermark_page)`.
    *   Save result.
3.  **Deliverables:** `pdf_watermark.py`, `run.bat` (Windows), `run.sh` (Mac).

🧠 Prompt Decoding

  • Watermark as PDF: Designing a watermark in code is hard. Designing it in Canva/Word and saving as a 1-page PDF is easy. The tool just stamps that page over your document. Simple and flexible.

πŸ› οΈ Instructions

  1. Create a β€œCONFIDENTIAL” PDF page.
  2. Copy Prompt -> Paste -> Run.
  3. Select Content + Watermark -> Stamp.

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