Organize PDF pages

Why organize the pages of a PDF

A scanned stack of papers rarely comes out right the first time. The appendix ended up in front of the letter, page 7 went through the feeder upside down, a blank back page sits between every sheet, and the landscape table on page 12 faces the wrong way. Fixing that with separate tools means saving and reopening the file three times. Here you see every page as a thumbnail and do it all at once: drag a page to its new place, turn it a quarter turn with ↻, mark pages you do not want with ×, and save one new PDF. On a phone or with the keyboard, the ← and → buttons under each page move it one place at a time, so nothing depends on dragging. The pages are copied, not redrawn, so text stays selectable and scans keep their full quality.

How to reorder, rotate and delete PDF pages

1. Drop your PDF in the box, or click to choose it. A thumbnail of every page appears.
2. Drag pages into the order you want, or use ← and → under a page. Turn pages with ↻ and mark pages to remove with ×.
3. Click Save new PDF and download the organized file.

What changes when you convert

The numbers are the old page numbers

Each thumbnail keeps the number it had in the original file, also after you move it, so you can always tell which page is which. The counter above the pages says how many pages the new file will have. Start over puts every page back in its first place, unturned and not deleted.

Deleted pages are left out, not hidden

The new PDF is built only from the pages you keep. Images and text of pages marked with × are not copied into it, and links or bookmarks that pointed to them are removed, so the file usually gets smaller. Your original file is not changed; keep it if you might need those pages again.

Turning adds to the rotation that is already there

↻ turns a page 90° clockwise each time you click it; four clicks bring it back. A page that was already stored rotated in the PDF is turned further from how it looks now. The thumbnails show each page the way it will be saved, so check that everything reads upright before you save.

What comes along and what does not

Bookmarks that point to pages you keep stay in the side panel, internal links follow their page to its new place, and form fields stay fillable with their values. Page labels, such as roman numerals for a preface, are not carried over, because they would no longer match the new order.

Signed and protected PDFs

Any change to the pages makes a digital signature invalid. PDFs that are encrypted, even ones that open without a password but restrict editing, cannot be changed here; the tool says so instead of producing a broken file.