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Rearrange the pages of a PDF

Give a PDF a new page order. Type the sequence you want using the original page numbers, and the document is rewritten to match. Because you are describing the output directly, you can also duplicate a page by naming it twice, or leave one out entirely.

Drop a PDF here to reorder it One PDF. You will type the new page order next.

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    How to reorder pdf pages

    1. Drop in the PDF whose pages you want to rearrange.
    2. Type the new order as page numbers — for example 3,1,2,4-6. The first number becomes the first page of the result.
    3. Name a page more than once to duplicate it, or omit pages you no longer want.
    4. Click Reorder pages and the rewritten file downloads.

    Why this PDF tool is private

    Reordering is nothing but rewriting the page tree: the pages move, the bytes are copied as they are. That work has no reason to involve a network connection, so it never uses one.

    Other tools in this category upload your file to a server, process it in the cloud, and return a download link. That means your document sits on someone else's disk — often with a retention window measured in hours. Here, the file is read by your browser, transformed in memory, and saved straight back to your disk. You can watch it happen in the live check above: the counter for files uploaded stays at zero.

    Frequently asked

    How do I duplicate a page?
    List its number twice. Writing 3,3,4 gives you page three twice, then page four. There is no separate duplicate button because the order string already expresses it.
    How do I delete pages with this tool?
    Simply leave them out of the sequence. If a ten-page document gets the order 1-5,7-10, then page six is gone from the result. For a dedicated tool, use Remove PDF pages.
    Does reordering reduce quality?
    No. Pages are moved intact rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable and images keep their original resolution.
    Can I reverse the whole document?
    Yes. Enter the range backwards — for a ten-page file, type 10-1. The tool reads a descending range as a reverse order rather than re-sorting it.
    What happens to bookmarks?
    Page content is always preserved. A bookmark tree that pointed at specific pages is not carried across, because after reordering its targets are ambiguous.