How to use Rearrange PDF pages
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Load the PDF
Drop a PDF of up to 50 MB and 200 pages; the thumbnails appear and the Page order panel comes first among the options.
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Move pages
Drag a page into its new slot, or focus it and press the arrow keys, Home or End to shift it.
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Use the shortcuts for big moves
Select pages and press To start or To end, reverse a backwards stack, or collate a double-sided scan in one click.
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Save the new order
Press Save new order to download name-reordered.pdf with the pages in their new sequence.
Limits and Pro
Reorder one PDF at a time, up to 200 pages and 50 MB.
Pro reorders documents of up to 5,000 pages and 4 GB in a single file. See Pro
About Rearrange PDF pages
Rearrange PDF pages changes the sequence of pages in a document and saves it as a new PDF, without retyping, re-exporting or re-scanning anything. It suits reports assembled from several exports, chapters that ended up in the wrong place, an appendix that should come first, or a scanned stack that went through the feeder in the wrong order.
Dragging works with a mouse, a pen or a finger; on touch screens press and hold a page until it lifts, so scrolling stays possible. Every page can also be moved with the keyboard, and screen readers announce the new position after each move. For bigger changes, select a group of pages and send it to the start or the end in one step.
Two buttons handle scanner order automatically. Reverse order flips the whole document. Collate a double-sided scan is for a one-sided feeder: you scan the fronts of a stack, turn it over and scan the backs, which produces 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2; the button interleaves that into 1 to 6.
Pages are moved as they are, so their content, text layer and size don't change, and links between them still land on the right page. The bookmark sidebar isn't transferred. Sorting by the text on a page, by a date or by the numbers printed on it is not something this tool can do.
Privacy
Reordering is computed in the page and the PDF is rewritten by pdf-lib inside a Web Worker on your device; the document doesn't travel over the network at any point. If the file is encrypted, the password you enter is used locally by qpdf, a WebAssembly engine fetched from this site only for such files.