Does organising change what is on the pages?
No. Pages are moved inside the file, never rebuilt or re-encoded: words, pictures and filled form answers come through exactly as they were, at the same quality. Only the order of the page list changes.
PDF tools · pages
Remove and organise pages
Lay a PDF's pages out in front of you, take the ones you do not need out, drag the rest into the right order, and copy a page if it belongs in twice. Everything runs in your browser; the document is never uploaded.
For a report with the appendix in the middle, a scan with two pages swapped, or a pack that needs the same page twice.
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Pick the PDF
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Arrange the pages
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Build and download
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Pages are moved inside the file, not rebuilt: what a page carries comes through exactly, and the document's own details, bookmarks and attachments stay attached. The honest limits are written out below, before you run.
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How it works
A PDF carries its pages as a list inside the file. This page rewrites that list in your order and saves the file: the pages themselves are not copied into a new document and nothing on them is re-encoded. Anything a page borrows from the document's shared shelves (some files keep a page's pictures and lettering on a shared shelf in the page list) is first written onto the page itself, so it cannot be left behind when the page moves; we checked this against files built exactly that way, against a filled form, and against a document with bookmarks. The download is how we protect your privacy: the program that does this job is part of this page, loaded from this site, and your file is read into the page and never uploaded. The finished file is opened again and its pages counted, so the result line reports the file's own numbers, not the plan.
Honest limits
Removing a page takes it out of the reading order, but its contents stay inside the file's storage, so the finished file may be no smaller. A bookmark pointing at a removed page stays in the list and leads nowhere. A copied page shows the form answers it carried, but the field itself stays registered on the original page. A signed document's signatures will no longer verify after any re-save, this one included, so organise the working copy, not the signed original.
A password-protected PDF cannot be opened by this tool. Take its password off first with the unlock tool, then bring the file back.
Questions
I removed a page. Why is the file not smaller?
Removing a page takes it out of the document's reading order, but its contents stay inside the file's storage. That is the price of not rebuilding the document: nothing else in the file can be damaged by the removal, and the file stays valid. If a smaller file is the job, run the finished file through the compress tool.
What happens to bookmarks and links?
A bookmark that points at a page keeps pointing at that same page after it moves, because kept pages keep their identity inside the file. A bookmark that points at a page you removed stays in the bookmark list but leads nowhere, because its page is no longer in the document.
Can I put the same page in twice?
Yes. Press Copy on a page and the copy takes the next place in the order. One honest catch for forms: a copied page shows the filled answer it carried, but the form field itself is registered once, on the original page. Fill a form, or flatten it, before organising if every copy needs to stay an editable field.
Where does my document go?
Nowhere. It is read into this page and organised in your browser. Watch the network panel while it works if you want to check.