Rearrange the pages of a PDF

Put the pages of a PDF in a new order: move a page to the front, swap two pages or reverse the whole file.

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Choose a PDF

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New page order

Tap the pages below in the order you want, or write it like 3, 1-2, 4-. Pages you leave out follow in their old order.

Name of the new file

Your PDF

The rearranged file appears here.

How to rearrange the pages of a PDF

Choose the PDF, then tap the page that should come first, the one that should come next, and so on; each page shows its new place. Pages you do not tap follow in their old order, so moving page 3 to the front takes one tap. Typing works too: 3, 1-2, 4- gives the same order, and 5-1 runs backwards.

Reverse the order turns the file back to front, which puts a stack scanned last page first the right way round. The pages are copied as they are, without being redrawn or compressed again; the file's bookmarks are not kept.

Next: Merge PDF

Worked example

In a 6-page report whose summary is page 6, typing 6, 1- gives 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: the summary first, the rest in their order.

Before you rely on the result

One PDF of up to 200 MB at a time. Each page appears once; to drop a page, delete it instead, and to copy one, split it out and merge it back. A PDF locked with a password has to be unlocked first. Nothing is uploaded.

Next: Delete PDF pages

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