Rearrange PDF Pages
Drag pages into the order you want and export the reordered document. Nothing is uploaded.
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Three ways to set the order
Open the file and the pages appear as previews in their current order. Each preview shows where the page is now and where it came from, so a page reading 4 ← 1 is in fourth place and started life as page one.
Drag
On a desktop, pick a page up and drop it where it belongs. The page it lands on shifts along rather than swapping places, which is what people expect and what makes moving a page four positions a single gesture instead of four.
The arrows
Under every preview is a pair of arrows that moves that page one place. This is the route to use on a phone, where dragging inside a scrolling grid fights with the scroll, and it is also what makes the whole tool reachable from the keyboard.
Type the order
The order box holds the full sequence and can be edited directly. For a long document where you already know the answer — the appendix belongs after the summary, everything else stays — typing 1, 12-14, 2-11 is far quicker than dragging. The box also does two things the grid cannot: leave a page out to drop it, or name a page twice to duplicate it.
Reassembling a two-pass scan
A sheet-feed scanner without a duplex unit produces a document in two runs: every front, then every back. The pages are all present and in a useless order — 1, 3, 5, 7 followed by 2, 4, 6, 8.
Interleave halves is the fix. It weaves the second half into the first, alternating one page from each, which restores the reading order in a single press.
There is a second version of the same problem. Turning the stack over rather than re-feeding it captures the backs last sheet first, so a six page document arrives as 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2. The fronts are already in order there and only the backs are wrong, which is what Reverse second half is for: it flips the back-side pass alone, giving 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6, and interleaving that returns 1 to 6. Reversing the whole document instead would put the fronts out of order as well.
An odd page count is handled by giving the extra page to the first half, which is the correct assumption: a document with an odd number of sides ends on a front.
What the new document keeps
| Element | After reordering |
|---|---|
| Text, fonts and vector artwork | Copied whole, still selectable |
| Images | Original resolution, never re-compressed |
| Per-page rotation | Travels with the page |
| Bookmark outline and form values | Not carried over — they belong to the document |
Questions
Is my document uploaded to reorder it?
No. The pages are drawn and reordered in your browser and the new file is written there. The tool has no backend, so nothing is transmitted and nothing is stored.
How do I move a page on a phone?
Use the arrows under each page preview. Dragging works on a desktop, but the arrows are quicker on a touch screen and they are also what makes the tool usable from the keyboard.
Can I type the page order instead of dragging?
Yes. The order box takes the pages in the sequence you want, such as 3, 1, 2, 4-10. It is the fastest route for a long document where you already know the order, and any page you leave out is simply left out of the result.
What does interleave do?
It weaves the second half of the document into the first, alternating between them. That reassembles a document scanned in two passes, where all the fronts were captured first and then all the backs. If the backs came out last sheet first, press Reverse second half before interleaving, which flips only the back-side pass and leaves the fronts alone.
Can I duplicate a page?
Yes, through the order box: naming the same page twice, as in 1, 2, 2, 3, puts two copies of it in the result. The drag grid cannot do this because each preview is a single page in a single place.
Does reordering affect quality or file size?
No. Pages are copied whole into the new document, so text stays selectable, fonts stay embedded and images keep their resolution. The size is essentially unchanged unless pages were dropped or duplicated.
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