How to use it· 4 steps
- Drop the PDF into the box above, then press Choose an image to place.
- Pick a PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF or SVG file; it appears in the middle of the page you are viewing.
- Drag it into position and resize it from a corner — proportions are kept unless you hold Shift.
- Add more images or text if you need to, then press Save edited PDF and download.
Step by step
How to use the add image to pdf
- 1Drop the PDF into the box above, then press Choose an image to place.
- 2Pick a PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF or SVG file; it appears in the middle of the page you are viewing.
- 3Drag it into position and resize it from a corner — proportions are kept unless you hold Shift.
- 4Add more images or text if you need to, then press Save edited PDF and download.
Logos, stamps, photos and signatures
The reasons people need to put a picture into a PDF are remarkably consistent. A business has an invoice or quotation generated by software that cannot add a logo, so the logo has to be stamped on afterwards. A form asks for a passport-style photo in a box. An office wants its "Paid" or "Approved" stamp on a document without printing and stamping it. Someone has a scan of their handwritten signature and needs it on a contract.
All of these come down to the same operation: place an image at a position and size on a page. This tool does that directly, on the page as it really looks, so you can line the logo up with the letterhead's margin or fit the photo into its box by eye, zoomed in as far as you need.
Signatures have their own tool in the same toolbar: Sign lets you draw or type a signature and places it the same way. If you already have a signature image with a transparent background, adding it as an image works just as well.
Formats and transparency
A PDF can hold two kinds of picture natively: JPEG, for photographs, and lossless images like PNG, which can carry transparency. JPEG and PNG files are embedded exactly as they are, with no re-compression, so a photo keeps its original quality and a logo keeps its crisp edges. WebP, GIF and SVG images are converted in your browser — to PNG, keeping their transparency — before they are embedded.
Transparency is what makes a logo or a stamp look printed rather than pasted: the page shows through around the shape instead of a white rectangle. For the cleanest result use a PNG with a transparent background. If all you have is a logo on a white background, the site's Background Remover can cut it out first.
Very large photos are scaled down to 2,400 pixels on their longest side before embedding. On a printed page that is still well over 300 dots per inch at any realistic size, and it stops a single phone photo adding ten megabytes to a two-page letter.
Placing images precisely
Each image arrives centred on the page you are looking at, at a sensible size. Drag to move it; drag a corner handle to resize it, which keeps its proportions so nothing gets stretched — hold Shift if you really do want to distort it. Arrow keys move a selected image one point at a time, or ten with Shift held, which is the easiest way to align it with a margin. Duplicate it with Ctrl+D to put the same logo on several pages: duplicate, then drag the copy to the next page's position.
Images sit on top of the page's existing content in the order you add them, so a stamp placed over text covers it, and anything you add afterwards — a date typed beside the stamp — sits on top of the image.
Nothing is uploaded
Both files stay on your device. The PDF and the image are read by your browser, the image is embedded into the PDF in memory, and the finished document is given back to you as a download. That matters for exactly the documents people add images to — signed contracts, ID forms with photographs, invoices with bank details.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Which image formats can I add?
PNG and JPEG are embedded as they are. WebP, GIF and SVG are converted to PNG in your browser first, keeping transparency.
Will a transparent PNG stay transparent?
Yes. PNG transparency is preserved, so a logo or stamp shows the page around it rather than a white box.
Does adding an image reduce its quality?
No. JPEG and PNG files are embedded without re-compression. Only very large images are scaled down to 2,400 pixels on the long side, which is still more than print needs.
Can I put the same image on every page?
Place it once, then duplicate it with Ctrl+D and drag each copy onto the next page. For a repeated mark across a whole document, the Watermark PDF tool does it in one step.
Are my files uploaded?
No. The PDF and the image are processed entirely in your browser.