snippet will add some header and footer lines to an existing PDF: doc = fitz.open("some.pdf") header = "Header" # text in header footer = "Page %i of %i" # text in footer for page in doc: page.insert_text((50 insert_text((50, 50), header) # insert header page.insert_text( # insert footer 50 points above page bottom (50, page.rect.height - 50), footer % (page.number + 1, doc.page_count), ) The text sequence extracted extracted from a page modified in this way will look like this: 1. original text 2. header line 3. footer line 54 Chapter 10. Text PyMuPDF Documentation, Release 1.24.2 PyMuPDF has several means to re-establish