What this does

Drop in a PDF and every page is laid out as a tile you can pick up. Drag them into the order you want, turn the ones that were scanned sideways, duplicate a page that needs to appear twice, delete the ones that shouldn't be there at all — then save the document back out. The line above the button tells you exactly what has changed, and nothing is written until you press it.

Nothing is uploaded. The PDF is read, rearranged and written entirely inside this page. That matters here because rearranging is something you do to a document you're about to send somewhere — a contract with the annexes in the wrong order, a scanned application with the pages shuffled — and it's usually the last thing you'd want sitting on someone else's server.

What you can do to a page

Move it — drag the tile where you want it. With a keyboard, tab to a page and use the left and right arrows to walk it through the document, or Home and End to send it to the front or the back.
Turn it — a quarter turn at a time, in either direction. This is added to however the page was already rotated, so a page that was sideways in the original ends up straight rather than upside down.
Duplicate it — the copy lands next to the original, and can then be moved and turned independently. Useful for a cover sheet that has to repeat, or a form page that needs filling in twice.
Delete it — and undo if that was a mistake.

Above the grid, Reverse order flips the whole document — the quickest fix for a stack scanned back to front — and Turn all rotates every page at once, for a document that came out of the scanner sideways. Undo steps back through everything you've done, and Start over puts the document back as it arrived.

What comes across

Pages are copied whole, with the fonts, images and annotations they depend on — nothing is re-rendered, re-compressed or flattened into a picture. Text stays selectable and searchable, and vector artwork stays sharp. Rotating a page sets the rotation the page itself carries; it doesn't redraw anything, so a turned page loses nothing.

What doesn't come across is the document's metadata. The file this produces is created fresh, with no title, author, producer or creation date carried over and none invented. Bookmarks and the outline are left behind too, since the structure they point at no longer exists once the pages have moved.

Organizing, removing and splitting

This is the tool for changing a document's shape. If all you want is to delete some pages,Remove Pages is quicker. If you want a few pages out as their own file, that's Extract Pages. If you want one document to become several, that's Split PDF. And if you have several documents to become one, Merge PDF does that first — then bring the result here to put it in order.

Is it private?

Yes, and you can check. The rearranging is done by JavaScript in this page; your PDF is never sent anywhere, and there's no server on the other end to send it to. Open your browser's network panel while you use it, or disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded — it carries on working.

Frequently asked questions

Does turning a page reduce its quality?

No. Rotation is a property of the page, not something painted onto it — the same setting a reader uses when it shows you a scanned page the right way up. The content is untouched.

How big a PDF can it handle?

It's limited by your device's memory rather than an upload cap, so files in the tens of megabytes are fine. Page previews are drawn only as you scroll to them, and each page is drawn once however often you move it, so a long document stays responsive while you rearrange it.

Can I undo everything?

Undo steps back through your changes one at a time, and Start over returns the document to exactly how it arrived. Your original file on disk is never modified either way — this produces a new PDF and leaves the one you dropped in alone.

It says my PDF is protected.

Encrypted PDFs can't be rearranged without the password, and that includes files with an owner password that only restricts printing or copying. Open it in a reader that can unlock it, save an unprotected copy, and use that.