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Prepend PDF

Insert pages at the beginning of a PDF document. Add a cover page, title page, or disclaimer before the existing content without modifying the original file.

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How to Use Prepend PDF
  1. 1Upload the PDF you want to insert at the beginning (e.g. your cover page or title page)
  2. 2Upload the main PDF document that will follow it
  3. 3Confirm the order — the first file becomes the new opening pages
  4. 4Click 'Prepend PDF' to generate the combined document
  5. 5Download and verify the cover page appears before the main content
Examples
  • Prepend a branded cover page to a plain report before sending to a client
  • Add a legal disclaimer page to the start of a document package
  • Insert a title page before an academic paper PDF
  • Prepend a confidentiality notice to sensitive document bundles
Frequently Asked Questions

Prepending inserts pages before the first page of an existing document. For example, prepending a cover page places it as page 1 and pushes all original pages forward by the number of prepended pages.

Append adds pages at the end of a document. Prepend inserts them at the beginning. Both produce a single merged PDF, just in different orders.

Yes — that is the primary use case. Create your cover page as a separate PDF, upload it first, then upload the report PDF second and run Prepend.

Yes. Upload a multi-page PDF as the first file and it will be inserted in full before the base document. For example, a 3-page introduction can be prepended to a 50-page report.

The physical page order changes — the original page 1 becomes page N+1 (where N is the number of prepended pages). Page number labels printed on existing pages remain as-is; only the document sequence shifts.

Yes. All formatting, images, fonts, and annotations in the prepended pages are preserved exactly as in the source file.

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