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Organize PDF pages

or drop one here
Choose a PDF file first.

Every page of your PDF appears as a thumbnail you can drag into order, nudge with arrow buttons, or delete. Keep the result as one PDF or take each page as its own file in a zip. The output is reopened and its pages and text compared with the sources before any download appears.

Putting pages in order, step by step

  1. Open the file

    Press Choose a PDF, or drag the file onto the page. The browser reads it and draws every page as a thumbnail in this tab. A hint under the grid says it plainly: drag pages or use the arrow buttons.

  2. Arrange and trim the grid

    Drag a tile where it belongs, or move it with its left and right arrows; a delete button sits on every tile too. Tick several pages to act on them at once with Keep only selected or Delete selected. Undo and Redo walk through each change, and Reset pages restores the source order as one more step you can undo.

  3. Pick one PDF or a zip

    Under Save as, One PDF keeps the shown order in a single file, while Separate PDFs writes one PDF per kept page into a single ZIP download. The run button reads Organize pages in the first mode and Split pages in the second.

  4. Check the proof, then save

    Each output file is reopened and its pages and readable text compared with the matching source pages. Press Download PDF, or Download ZIP in separate mode. One-file output is named after the source with -organized added; the zip holds one -page-NN file per kept page.

Arranging pages here is free and needs no account. The page loads over the web and then does the whole job locally, so your document never travels anywhere.

A tenancy agreement the scanner fed backwards

A letting agent feeds twelve pages into the office scanner and gets tenancy-agreement.pdf back in reverse: page 12 first, page 1 last, plus a blank separator the machine picked up mid-stack and page 1 scanned twice at the end. Fourteen tiles, and the agreement needs to read 1 to 12 with nothing extra.

The fix is eleven drags and two deletes. Drop the blank and the duplicate with their tile delete buttons, then drag pages into ascending order while the status line counts what is kept. One tile shows a bare Page 9 label instead of a thumbnail, where the drawing failed, but it moves and deletes like any other tile and its content is still verified. With One PDF picked, the download arrives as tenancy-agreement-organized.pdf: twelve pages, right order, nothing extra.

Work without fear of the grid: every change lands in history, Undo and Redo walk through it, and even Reset pages is one more undoable step rather than a point of no return. When the order looks right, read the grid once top to bottom like a reader would, then run.

Page shuffles that end in tears

Keeping when you meant deleting. Tick the pages you want and press Delete selected, and you have destroyed exactly the set you wanted. The two bulk buttons are complements: Keep only selected discards everything unticked, Delete selected discards everything ticked. Press Undo and the grid is back.

A zip when you wanted one file. Separate PDFs left on from a previous job turns an arranged twelve pages into twelve files. Glance at Save as before pressing the run button; the button itself tells you the mode, reading Split pages instead of Organize pages.

Sideways pages arranged beautifully. This grid moves pages but never turns them, so a sideways scan stays sideways in the output. Turn pages first in Rotate PDF, then arrange the upright result here.

Bookmarks and fields left behind. Each page travels alone, so outlines, named links and fillable fields can be left behind in the move. The check covers the pages themselves: sizes kept, readable text compared, order confirmed.

Arranging pages from two files at once. The grid holds one PDF. To mix pages from several files, join them first with Merge PDF, then arrange the combined grid here and delete the pages that do not belong.

Jobs this grid cannot do

Some jobs look like arranging but are not. Turning pages upright is Rotate PDF, and it stays there even when the same file also needs reordering; rotate first, arrange second. Changing the words on a page is Edit PDF, which whites out and retypes. Cutting one document into multi-page parts is Split PDF, which names each part after its range instead of its position.

Two files whose pages must interleave, such as odd and even scans, need a merge before they need this grid: stack them with Merge PDF, then weave the combined pages into sequence here. And a file whose password nobody knows cannot be arranged anywhere until the sender shares it or an unlocked copy.

Short answers about arranging pages

Can I reorder pages without a mouse?
Yes. Every tile carries move-left, move-right and delete buttons, so dragging is a shortcut rather than the only route. The whole grid works from the keyboard, and Undo and Redo step through each change.
What is the difference between Keep only selected and Delete selected?
They are complements. Keep only selected discards everything you did not tick; Delete selected discards everything you ticked. Both are undoable, so a wrong pick costs one press of Undo.
A page shows no thumbnail. Is it broken?
Not necessarily. A tile whose drawing failed shows a bare page label instead, and it still moves, deletes and verifies like any other tile. If the content itself were unreadable, the file would have been refused up front.
What do I download in each mode?
One PDF gives a single file named after the source with -organized added. Separate PDFs gives a zip holding one -page-NN file per kept page, each reopened and checked before packing.
Can I undo after pressing Reset pages?
Yes. Reset pages restores the source order as one more history step, so Undo brings your arrangement straight back. Nothing in the grid is final until you press the run button.
Why is there no rotate button?
Because turning pages lives in Rotate PDF, which writes rotation onto the page itself. Arrange here, rotate there; either order works, but the jobs stay separate.

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