Protect your PDF documents from unauthorized distribution and add the watermark online. To do this, just load a PDF document format and add a text or image watermark using our powerful cURL command line tool. Then save the watermarked document in a convenient format such as DOC, DOCX, PDF, HTML, RTF, XPS and others. You can also remove the watermark from PDF documents to make them easier to process unless it violates anyone's rights.
With this cURL API, developers can add a watermark to PDF online. Just create the watermark using text or an image and then insert that watermark into your PDF document in cURL.
Note: there is no need to install any third party applications or libraries. Therefore, our cURL software solution is very easy to use.
The given cURL SDK is also helpful to remove watermarks from PDF. Removing a watermark in PDF means that you can load the desired PDF document stamped with a text or image watermark, remove this watermark from the PDF using cURL, and then save the output file in a convenient format – DOC, DOCX, PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and others.
To evaluate how to add or remove a watermark in PDF with our cURL API, load the PDF and the watermark as an image or text. Then select a convenient export file format – DOC, DOCX, PDF, HTML, RTF, XPS and others.
Use the following example to see how it works:
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/online/post/watermarks/insert" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@Input1.pdf" \
-F WatermarkData="{ \"Image\": { \"Reference\": \"2b4ecf13-d42e-4e9c-a7cd-9dbf39d8593c\", \"Source\": \"Request\" } }"
-F 2b4ecf13-d42e-4e9c-a7cd-9dbf39d8593c="@Input2.jpg"
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/convert?format=pdf" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@document"
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/online/post/watermarks/insert" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@Input.pdf"
-F WatermarkData="{ \"Layout\": \"Diagonal\", \"Text\": \"This is the watermark text\" }"
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/convert?format=pdf" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@document"
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/online/post/watermarks/deleteLast" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@Input.pdf"
curl -v "https://api.aspose.cloud/v4.0/words/convert?format=pdf" \
-X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ####################" \
-F Document="@document"
Download and install the curl utility. Please follow these Instructions to quickly get the necessary security credentials and access our REST API.
There are no special requirements for using this tool.
You can add a watermark to a document in other formats: