Reorder PDF Pages
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Rearrange, rotate and delete pages from a PDF, then save it back out.
- Drop a PDF in and wait a moment for the page thumbnails
- Drag pages into the order you want, or move them with the arrows, and delete or rotate the ones that need it
- Apply the changes and save the rebuilt PDF
Drag a page where you want it, or use the arrows — and hold Alt with the arrow keys to move the page you have selected. Deleted pages stay visible until you apply the changes.
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About this tool
Rearranging a PDF is the kind of job that is trivial when you can see the pages and nearly impossible when you cannot. Most tools ask you to type page numbers at a document you have not looked at, which works for a two-page file and fails for a forty-page scan where you are trying to work out which sheets went through the feeder backwards. This renders every page as a thumbnail first, then lets you drag them into the order you want, delete the ones that should go and rotate the ones that came out sideways, writing the result once at the end. Doing all three in one place is deliberate: they are the same edit, the new document is assembled by copying pages out of the old one, and in practice they are done in the same sitting. Splitting them across three tools means three round trips to make one scan usable. The work is lossless. Pages are copied rather than redrawn, so text stays selectable and images keep their resolution, and shared resources such as fonts are copied once rather than once per page — which is how these tools quietly double a file size. Everything happens in your browser, so the document never reaches a server.
Frequently asked questions
Can I reorder pages without a mouse?
Yes. Dragging is the quickest way to move a page when you have a mouse, but it is never the only one: every page carries move-earlier and move-later arrows, and with a page selected you can hold Alt and press the arrow keys to walk it through the document. All three do the same thing to the same list, so you can rearrange PDF pages by keyboard alone — which also matters on a touchscreen, where dragging a thumbnail is fiddly and the arrows are not.
How do I delete pages from PDF files?
Click the page you want gone and it is marked for removal — the thumbnail stays on screen, dimmed and outlined in dashes, until you apply the changes, so a mistake is one click back rather than a re-upload. Rearrange PDF pages in the same pass by dragging them, since move PDF pages and delete them are usually the same job: the document arrived in the wrong shape and leaves in the right one.
Does rebuilding the PDF reduce quality?
No. Pages are copied between documents rather than re-rendered, so text remains selectable and searchable and images keep their exact resolution. Rotation is a stored angle on the page rather than a redrawing of it.
Will the file get bigger?
It should not. All the pages are copied in a single operation, which lets shared resources such as fonts and repeated images be written once for the whole document rather than once per page. Copying page by page is the usual cause of a rebuilt PDF doubling in size.
How do I reverse a document that was scanned backwards?
Through the API you can pass an order such as 20-1, which is a descending range and reverses the whole document in one step. In the browser, deleting nothing and moving pages works for small files, and the descending range is the practical answer for large ones.
Can I duplicate a page?
Yes, through the API: repeating a page number in the order list produces that page twice, and they are genuinely two pages rather than two references to one. It is the same mechanism that makes deleting work, which is simply leaving a number out.
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