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In View page (.cshtml) Create a Link using anchor tag and define href field as:

href = ‘@Url.Action(“Download”, “YourControllerName”,new{filePath = “”})’

public FileResult Download(string filePath)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

byte[] fileBytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(filePath);
string fileNAme = Path.GetFileName(filePath);

string tmpPath = Path.GetTempPath();
tmpPath = tmpPath + fileNAme;

PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(fileBytes);

PdfReader.unethicalreading = true;
FileStream sourceFileStream = new FileStream(tmpPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
PdfStamper pdfStream = new PdfStamper(pdfReader, sourceFileStream);
string waterMark= "Confidential"
for (int page = 1; page <= pdfReader.NumberOfPages; page++)
{
Rectangle pageRectangle = pdfReader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(page);
PdfContentByte pdfData = pdfStream.GetUnderContent(page);
pdfData.SetFontAndSize(BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA_BOLD, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED), 50);
PdfGState graphicsState = new PdfGState();
graphicsState.FillOpacity = 0.6F;
pdfData.SetGState(graphicsState);
pdfData.SetColorFill(BaseColor.GRAY);
pdfData.BeginText();
pdfData.ShowTextAligned(Element.ALIGN_CENTER, waterMark, pageRectangle.Width / 2, pageRectangle.Height / 2, 45);
pdfData.EndText();
}
pdfStream.FormFlattening = true;
pdfStream.Close();
pdfStream.Dispose();
sourceFileStream.Close();
sourceFileStream.Dispose();

byte[] byteArray = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(tmpPath);
System.IO.File.Delete(tmpPath);
ms.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
ms.Position = 0;

return new FileStreamResult(ms, "application/pdf");
}

To use above code you need iTextSharp dll. you can install it using Nuget as: Install-Package iTextSharp

References :
<ul>
<li><a https://developers.itextpdf.com/itextsharp-net</a></li>
</ul>