Organize PDF

Rewrite a PDF's page order, leave out the pages you do not want, and turn whatever is left — in a single pass.

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What this tool does

Organize PDF rebuilds a document from a list of page numbers. You type the arrangement you want — 3,1,2 or 4,1-2,last — and a new PDF is written holding exactly those pages in exactly that sequence. Rearranging, removing and repeating are the same operation seen from three angles: a page you move appears where you put it, a page you leave off the list is gone, and a page you write twice appears twice.

The order box takes numbers, ranges and a few words. An ascending range counts up as you would expect, and a descending one such as 8-5 counts back down, which is how a section gets reversed without typing every number in it. An open range like 12- runs to the end of the document, -4 starts at the first page, and the words first and last stand in for numbers. Leaving the box on all keeps the existing sequence, which is what you want when only the rotation needs to change.

The work runs in this browser tab through pdf-lib, so the PDF is read, rebuilt and handed back on your own machine without a copy going anywhere. The caveat worth stating first is the interface: there is no page canvas here and no thumbnails to drag. You describe the arrangement as a typed list, so you need to know roughly what sits on which page — keep the document open beside this one, or run PDF to JPG when you need to look at the pages before you can name them.

Two further limits decide whether this is the right tool. The rotation is a single angle for the whole kept set, and it is added to the angle each page already carried rather than replacing it, so a file needing different pages turned different ways takes a second pass through Rotate PDF. And because the output is a freshly created document rather than an edited one, document-level furniture does not come along: the outline is not rebuilt, and an interactive form is safer flattened beforehand. Page content and the annotations attached to each page are copied across intact.

How to use it

  1. Add the PDF. One document per run. Add several and each is rebuilt separately with the same order, which only makes sense when the files share a layout.
  2. Type the page order. List what you want and where: 3,1,2 or 4,1-2,last. Ranges, open ranges and repeats all count, and anything you omit is dropped.
  3. Pick a rotation if you need one. No rotation, 90° clockwise, 180° or 90° anticlockwise, applied to every page that survived the list rather than to chosen pages.
  4. Run it and keep the new file. The result carries a -organized suffix, with a count of how many pages went in and how many came out beside it.

Processing & privacy

Runs on your device. Your file is processed directly in this browser.

Common use cases

An appendix in the wrong place

One line both drops the pages you no longer want and lifts the summary to the front, instead of two separate passes over the same file.

A document scanned back to front

A descending range such as 40-1 writes every page out in the opposite order, so a reversed feed is fixed without rescanning the stack.

A deck exported sideways

Leave the order on all and turn the whole set 90°, which straightens a landscape export without touching the page sequence.

A cover sheet that repeats

Listing a page more than once is allowed, so 1,2-6,1,7-11 puts the same front sheet ahead of each section of the finished file.

Questions

Is my PDF uploaded?
No. pdf-lib parses and rewrites the document inside this browser tab, so the file and every page you discard stay on your own machine. Once the page has loaded there is nothing left to transmit.
How do I delete pages here?
By leaving them out. The order box is a keep list, so typing 1-5,9- against a twenty-page file quietly drops pages six, seven and eight. When removal is the only thing you want, Delete Pages takes the pages to remove instead.
Can I type odd or even in the order box?
No. This field accepts numbers, ranges, first and last, and rejects odd and even as invalid ranges — they describe a set rather than a sequence, and this tool is about sequence. Rotate PDF does accept them.
Can different pages get different rotations?
Not in one run. The rotate setting turns every page you kept, by the same amount, on top of whatever angle that page already held. For per-page angles, run Rotate PDF over the result and name the pages there.
What if I name a page that is not in the document?
The run stops before anything is written and the message names the real page count, so no half-built file is produced. Clearing the box is not an error, though: a blank order is read as all and every page is kept. What does get refused is the word none, or a line holding nothing but commas.
Do bookmarks, links and form fields survive?
Only what lives on the page itself. Text, images and page annotations are copied, while the outline and the form dictionary belong to the document as a whole and are not recreated, so an internal link that pointed at a page you dropped no longer lands anywhere.
Will it open a PDF that has a password on it?
It cannot be read. The document is refused with a message pointing at Unlock PDF — clear the password there using the one you already hold, then rebuild the page order here.

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