Reorder PDF pages
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Drag the pages into the order you want and download the result. It works entirely in this tab, so a scanned contract or a set of payslips never leaves your machine. Dragging is the shortcut; every row also has arrows, because dragging does nothing on a phone and cannot be done with a keyboard. The pages are listed by number rather than drawn as pictures, which is explained below.
Put them in order
Drag a row up or down, or use the arrows on it. Nothing is written until you press the button.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. It is read and rebuilt in this tab, and the file never leaves the machine. The site’s security policy sets connect-src ‘none’, so the browser blocks network requests from these pages, so nothing could be sent even if the code tried. The documents people most often need to reorder are scanned contracts, statements and forms, which are exactly the ones that should not be dropped on a website.
Why are the pages not shown as pictures?
Because drawing a PDF page means a complete graphics engine: fonts, paths, shading, transparency. That is a library many times the size of everything else on this site, and it would have to be downloaded before the first page appeared. What can be shown honestly and instantly is the page number and the page size, and on a scanned document the size and orientation is usually what tells one page from another. Showing a grey rectangle and calling it a preview would be worse than saying this plainly.
Can I reorder pages on a phone?
Yes, with the arrows on each row. Dragging genuinely does nothing on a touch screen: the browser interface for dragging was built for a mouse and never fires on touch. That is why the arrows are the real control here and dragging is what a mouse gets on top of it.
Does it work with a keyboard?
Yes. Tab to a row arrow and press it; the focus follows the page as it moves, so shifting a page four places is four presses rather than four trips back through the list. Each move is announced, so it is usable with a screen reader as well as without a mouse.
Does anything else about the document change?
No. The pages are copied across whole, with their text, images, links and annotations, and only the order they appear in is different. Nothing is re-encoded, so the quality and the file size stay essentially the same.
Why is there a limit of 300 pages?
Because past that the list stops being something a person can drag through and becomes wallpaper. A PDF also has to be read whole before anything can be done with it, since it keeps its index at the end of the file, so there is a size limit as well. Both are stated here rather than discovered when a tab dies.