Move a page up or down, turn one the right way round, trim the margins, throw a page out. All of it on your own machine, with nothing uploaded and no page limit.
Open a document and the page thumbnails appear down the side. Each page has a move-up and a move-down button, and each press shifts that page exactly one position. That is the whole mechanism. There is no drag-and-drop — you do not pick a thumbnail up and drop it somewhere else, because that interface does not exist here.
Worth knowing before you start, because it decides whether this suits your document. Swapping two adjacent pages, or lifting a page four places, is a couple of clicks and done. Dragging page 20 to the front of a report is nineteen presses of the same button, and you would feel every one of them. We would rather say that up front than have you discover it halfway through a fifty-page file.
The same thumbnail panel is also how you get around the document — click a page to jump there, then reorganise from the same panel, without scrolling back to find your place.
Cropping sets the page's /CropBox, the entry that tells a viewer which part of
the sheet to display. Scanner margins, a header band, the white space around a slide: set the
box and the page shows what you want, at the size you want, in any reader that follows the
spec.
Here is the part people get wrong, and it matters. Cropping is visual only. The content outside the box is still in the file — it has been hidden from view, not deleted, and anyone who widens the box again, or opens the file with a tool that ignores it, gets it back. If you are cropping to cut a name, an address or a signature out of a page, cropping will not do it. Use redaction, which removes the text from the file instead, and crop only for framing.
One practical note on the interface: cropping asks you for four numbers in PDF points — left, bottom, right, top — in a prompt. You are not dragging a rectangle over the page. Points are 1/72 of an inch, so a US Letter page is 612 by 792 and an A4 page is about 595 by 842.
Any page can be turned a quarter turn at a time, in either direction. The buttons are
−90° and +90° and they stack, so a page that came out of the scanner upside down
takes two presses in the same direction. Rotation is written into the PDF's /Rotate
entry, which is the standard, viewer-applied rotation — the page stays turned when the file is
opened somewhere else.
Deleting works on whatever page you are on, with one rule: it will not delete the last remaining page, because a PDF with no pages is not a PDF. If what you actually want is one chapter kept as its own document, that is a different job — see splitting a PDF into separate files.
Most of what a PDF organizer is asked to do is one of four things — reorder, rotate, crop, delete — and they are all in the same panel, with one save at the end. Merging is there too: point it at several documents and it combines them into one. One thing to know about merging is that the bookmarks go. Each source document's outline is dropped in the process, so a merged file will not carry a table of contents built from bookmarks.
There is no page limit and no file-size limit anywhere in the code, and no account to make. The same PDF arranger runs in all three builds: the desktop app for macOS and Windows, the web app in a browser tab, and the Chrome extension. All three are free — the only two paid tools in the whole product are the watermark and OCR. If you are marking a document up rather than rearranging it, the annotation tools for highlights and notes are in the same app.
Search for a way to rearrange PDF pages and the first several results ask you to upload the file. Think about what that trade is. To move page three above page two — a change that never needed to leave your desk — you hand the entire document, every page of it, to a server you do not control, and then hope the copy is deleted on whatever schedule the footer promises.
Nothing here is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. The web app does the work in the page itself. The Chrome extension declares no permissions and no host permissions at all, so the browser would not let it reach a server even if something in it tried. The desktop app opens the file where it already sits.
In a browser tab, with nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
No, and this is the one people get wrong. Cropping sets the page's CropBox, which tells a viewer what to display. Everything outside the box is still in the file and comes back if the box is widened or the file is opened with a tool that ignores it. To take something out of a page for good, redact it instead of cropping it.
They are dropped. Merging combines the pages of the source documents into a single file, but each document's outline is lost in the process, so a merged file will not carry over a table of contents that was built from bookmarks.
Yes. Rotation is written into the PDF's Rotate entry, the standard field every conforming viewer applies when it draws the page, so the page comes up turned the same way in another reader, on another machine, or after printing.