Organize PDF

How it works

1. 1

   Load the document Click the upload area to browse for a PDF, or drag one onto it. The page grid fills with one thumbnail per page, one after another: wait for the last one before you move, rotate, delete or save pages.

2. 2

   Move pages Drag a thumbnail to the place you want. You can also select pages and press Move up or Move down to shift them one place at a time.

3. 3

   Rotate or duplicate Hover over a page to reveal its Rotate page and Duplicate page buttons, then click one. Rotate all turns every page at once.

4. 4

   Delete pages Click the pages to remove so they show a check mark, then press Delete. All and None select or clear every page.

5. 5

   Save the new PDF Press Save and download to get the result. Before that, Reset changes brings back the original order, rotation and pages if you went too far.

Reading the page grid

Each thumbnail carries two numbers. The small badge in the top corner is the page's number in the original file, and the number along the bottom edge is its position in the file you are about to save.

When you move, duplicate or delete pages, the bottom numbers change and the badges stay the same, so you can always tell where a page came from. The toolbar keeps a running count of pages and selected pages.

Rotation and duplicates

Each press of Rotate page turns that page 90 degrees clockwise, so three presses give a quarter turn counterclockwise. Rotate all applies the same quarter turn to every page, and the thumbnails show the result right away.

The turn adds to any rotation the page already had and is saved as a page setting, not as a picture: text stays selectable and nothing is recompressed. Duplicate page inserts a copy right after the original, with the same rotation, which is handy to repeat a cover or a form page.

What this tool does not do

• • No step-by-step undo: Reset changes restores the whole document as it was loaded, in one go.
• • No pages from another file: combine the files with Merge PDF first, then organize the result.
• • No automatic detection of blank pages: spot them on the thumbnails and delete them yourself.
• • No free angle: pages turn by quarter turns only.
• • A deleted page can leave traces: it does not come along, a link to it from a page you keep leads nowhere, and images, fonts and drawings that only deleted pages use are removed, but the other half of a two-page spread stays inside the saved file, out of sight, as does all that a page shares with others when the tool cannot read its content for sure or that content is too large to check, which a message then tells you. For a confidential file in such a case, turn the pages you keep into images with PDF to JPG, then rebuild the file with JPG to PDF. The bookmarks of the original, its layers and its properties, such as the title, do not come along: a hidden layer becomes visible, and a link to a named destination leads nowhere.