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How to merge, split, reorder, and rotate PDF pages with the Pages tool

Combine multiple PDFs and images into one file, split a PDF into separate pages, or extract, reorder, rotate, and delete pages — all in your browser with nothing uploaded.

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The Pages workspace at /app/pages merges, splits, extracts, reorders, rotates, deletes, and optionally compresses PDF pages — entirely in your browser, so your files are never uploaded.

Before you start

  • You can drop PDFs and images (PNG / JPG) together. Each image becomes one PDF page, and phone-photo orientation is corrected automatically.
  • Everything runs locally in your browser tab. No file bytes leave your device.
  • Your work is not autosaved. Page order, rotations, and deletions live in memory until you download, and the tool warns you before you close or refresh a tab with unsaved changes.
  • Permission-restricted PDFs (printing or copying disabled, but no password prompt) are unlocked on your device automatically — you'll see "Unlocked a protected PDF on your device — nothing was uploaded." PDFs that need a password to open must be decrypted first; see Pages troubleshooting.

Steps

  1. Open /app/pages and drop one or more files onto the dropzone — or click Or try with a sample PDF to experiment.
  2. Every page appears as a thumbnail tile. Drag a tile to reorder it (you can also focus a tile and press Alt+Arrow to move it one slot). Drop more files into the strip below the toolbar at any time to add them.
  3. Select pages: click selects one, Shift+click selects a range, Cmd/Ctrl+click toggles individual pages, Cmd/Ctrl+A selects everything, and Esc clears the selection.
  4. Edit the selection with the toolbar: Rotate left or Rotate right (90° per click) and Delete (the Delete or Backspace key works too). Each tile also has its own rotate and delete buttons.
  5. Optional: tick Compress to re-render pages as JPEGs and pick a level. This is lossy — text stops being selectable — so it's best for scans and image-heavy PDFs.
  6. Optional Pro tools, applied at download time: Bates stamps a per-page number (a prefix of up to 24 characters plus a zero-padded counter, e.g. DOC-00001, with a starting number you choose) in the bottom-right of every page, and Crop trims a uniform margin (0–72 pt slider). Crop runs first, so the Bates number always lands inside the visible area. Like Compress, both apply to merge and extract downloads — not to split. Both are Pro features (free for signed-in users during the private beta).
  7. Download with the action that matches what you want:
ButtonWhat it doesOutput
Merge & download / Save as PDFBuilds one PDF from every page in workspace order (your selection is ignored)One PDF
Extract N selected → PDFOne PDF containing only the selected pages, in their current orderOne PDF
Split … into PDFs (zip)Each page — or each selected page — becomes its own one-page PDFA .zip of PDFs

The main button reads Merge & download when several files are loaded and Save as PDF when there's just one. Split needs at least 2 pages in scope. Extract is disabled when nothing is selected, and also when everything is selected — then the result would be identical to Save.

Compress levels

LevelTrade-off
SmallestHeavy JPEG compression — smallest file, visible artifacts on text
BalancedReadable text with a modest size win (the default)
Best qualityLight compression — best look, smaller size win

Compress applies to merge and extract; it's intentionally ignored on split.

Result

A single source downloads as yourfile-out.pdf; multiple sources merge into pages-out.pdf. Extract downloads as pages-N.pdf. Split delivers yourfile-split-N.zip containing one PDF per page, named like yourfile-p3.pdf. After a merge or save download, a toast offers to hand the result straight to the Fill tool so you can fill or sign it next.

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