Reorder PDF Pages — Rearrange & Delete

Scanners feed pages in whatever order they were stacked, merged files land with the appendix in the middle, and a single blank page sneaks in after every chapter. Reorder PDF Pages shows the whole document as thumbnails so you can see the problem, then lets you drag pages into place, delete the ones you do not want and save a new PDF. It all happens in this tab; the file is never uploaded.

How to Use It on a Scanned Contract

1. Drop a PDF on the page, or press Try a sample. The first sample is an 8-page “Quarterly report” running Cover, Contents, Summary, Revenue, Costs, Outlook, Appendix A, Appendix B; a later one is a 5-page “Scanned contract” whose pages came out as 3, 1, 2, Signatures, 4.
2. Drag a thumbnail onto another to move it there, or use the arrows under each page on a phone. The black badge shows each page’s new position and “p. 3” its place in the original.
3. Press the bin to delete a page. It stays in the grid, greyed out, so the undo arrow can bring it back.
4. Press Save. The download is named after your file with -reordered added, and the summary line reports how many pages were kept and deleted.

Format Notes for Typed Page Orders

The order box mirrors the grid, so you can read the current order or type a new one and press Enter. Commas separate pages and hyphens make ranges: 1-4, 9, 8-6 keeps the first four pages, then page 9, then 8, 7 and 6. A range written high to low runs backwards, which is the quickest way to flip a section scanned upside-down in the stack, and 12-1 reverses a 12-page file outright. Any page left out of the list is deleted. Each page may appear once; typing2, 2 stops with “Page 2 is listed twice. Each page can appear once.”

What Happens When Pages Are Deleted

The pages you keep are copied into a fresh PDF exactly as they are, with their own rotation, text and images, so nothing is re-compressed or re-rendered. What does not carry across is anything that belongs to the document rather than the page: bookmarks, the outline sidebar and fillable form fields are left behind. A file can be up to 100 MB; password-protected PDFs have to be unlocked first, and at least one page must remain, because a PDF with no pages is not a PDF.