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Put PDF pages in a new order

Rearrange a document by writing the order you want, like 3,1,2. Free, no watermark, no signup, and the file is rebuilt inside your own browser.

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Page numbers separated by commas. Ranges work, backwards ranges reverse, and a page may appear more than once.

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    How it works

    The order you write is parsed into a list of page indices, which is checked against the document before anything is built. A fresh document is then created and the pages are copied into it in that order. Copying rather than shuffling matters: the copy resolves each page's fonts, images and annotations into the new file, whereas rearranging the page tree in place leaves those resources behind their original entries and produces pages that are blank in some readers and correct in others.

    What to watch out for

    Pages you do not name are left out

    The order is the whole instruction, so writing 3,1 on a ten-page document gives you a two-page document. That is deliberate — the alternative, quietly appending everything unmentioned, would make "1" mean no change instead of just the first page — but it is the one behaviour worth checking before you download.

    Links between pages are not repaired

    An internal link, a bookmark or a table of contents entry points at a specific page. Move that page and the pointer follows it where the reader can resolve it, but anything a producer wrote as a fixed page number in the text will now be wrong. The words on the page say what they always said.

    Form fields and signatures do not enjoy being moved

    Copying pages into a new document rebuilds the structures around them. Interactive form fields usually survive; a digital signature does not, because it certifies the exact bytes of the file it was applied to and any rearrangement invalidates it by design. Sign after reordering rather than before.

    Limits

    Files up to about 200 MB work reliably. Beyond that, the ceiling is your device's memory rather than any rule we impose — the work happens on your own machine. Tested in Chrome 140, Firefox 143, Safari 18.

    Writing the order instead of dragging it

    Dragging thumbnails looks friendlier and is worse for anything longer than a few pages. A written order can be read back and checked before you commit to it, copied from a note, corrected without starting again, and it means the same thing on a phone as on a desktop.

    3,1,2 says exactly what the result will be. There is no way to be halfway through it.

    What the notation allows

    Three things, because all three come up in practice.

    A plain list, 3,1,2, gives a new order for every page.

    Ranges, 5-8,1-4, because that is how most rearrangements are actually described — the appendix moved in front of the body, the second half moved to the top. A backwards range reverses: 10-1 turns a document upside down.

    Repetition, 2,2,7, for a document being assembled rather than merely sorted — a separator page that needs to appear several times, or a cover duplicated for a double-sided print.

    Extracting is the same operation

    Because unnamed pages are dropped, this doubles as a way to pull a handful of pages out in a chosen order — something a split tool, which works in contiguous ranges, cannot do. 7,2,9 gives you exactly those three pages, in exactly that sequence.

    The document never leaves your machine

    It is parsed and rebuilt by a Web Worker in this tab. A document being reorganised is usually one that is not finished, which makes it precisely the kind of file that should not be sitting in somebody else’s upload directory while you decide what order the pages go in.

    Your files never leave your browser. Last updated 2026-08-07.