How to watermark your PDF files with Python.

One of the most ancient yet efficient ways to protect your PDF work is by watermarking. In the past, we had to manually stamp it with a watermark when sending a PDF by e-mail to customers or relations.

In the following bullet points I will show you how we automated this in a simple, yet efficient manner!

Not required, although highly recommended is the use of some sort of shared folder. Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive should work fine.

The following dependencies should be installed:

Optionally you could choose to waterstamp with only a picture or only text, standard this script will do both. Make sure that your waterstamp image has the desired dimensions.

Once you have tested and tweaked the code to your liking you will probably want to run it repeatedly on a PC.

One of the easiest ways to schedule (and monitor this) is to use the PyPi package ‘SchedulePython’. This tool allows you to run Python scripts on multiple desktop environments and lets you know what the output was. This gives you control about which tasks ran successful and which didn’t (and why).

Step 2: Run the following commands in your command line:

Step 3: Login with your SchedulePython credentials:

Step 4: Restart your computer

Now you can simply choose when to schedule it or start it remotely by pressing the ‘play button’ and keep track of the outcome on SchedulePython.com.

There you go, no more manual watermarking. Robotic stamping for the win!

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