or click this area to pick a .pdf file
In a PDF those three descriptions map to one action: create an empty document, then move the pages you want to keep into it in the order you specify. Deleting 3 pages and extracting the other 17 give you the same file; dragging page 5 to the front just changes the order of the move. That is why this is not split into three tools — they share one thumbnail grid, and putting them together is genuinely more convenient: a scan often has an extra cover page and two pages in the wrong order at the same time, and handling it in one pass beats bouncing between three tools.
Every page of a PDF carries a /Rotate attribute whose value is 0, 90, 180 or 270, and readers use it to decide which way the page faces. Rotating a PDF page therefore needs no re-rendering: only that number changes, and not one byte of the text, vector art or images on the page moves, so no amount of turning ever costs quality, and the file size does not change either. This is also the right fix when a scan faces the wrong way — far cleaner than converting to images, fixing them and stitching them back. On export this tool adds your rotation to the page's existing angle, so a document that was already landscape comes out correct after a 90° right turn instead of being flipped back to portrait.
This page works on the pages inside a single file. If you want to combine several PDFs into one, or pick a few pages from each of several files, use Merge PDF, which lets you write a separate page range for each file. If the problem is two pages laid out on one sheet — two book pages captured in a single shot, or an A3 imposition — you need to cut the sheet down the middle, which is what Split PDF Pages does, and the page count goes up. Ordering, deleting and rotating — the three jobs that do not change page content — belong here.
Usually, but by how much depends on the content. Only the images and fonts the surviving pages actually reference are written into the new file, so dropping a few high-resolution scans often shrinks it noticeably; conversely, if the pages you delete are plain text whose font subset is shared with the pages you keep, the size barely moves. this is not a compression tool — it never re-encodes images and never lowers the sharpness of any page. What you get is the reduction that dropping pages brings, not quality traded away.
No. Reading the file, rendering the thumbnails and building the new PDF all happen locally in your browser; the page never uploads your file contents, which makes it suitable for contracts, expense receipts, medical reports and other material that should not leave your machine. Once the page has loaded you can keep using it offline.
Yes. A deleted page does not disappear from the grid — it just fades and stays where it was, and the button under the card becomes “Restore”, one click away. The bulk actions also include “Restore deleted pages” and “Undo all changes”. More importantly, the file you uploaded is never modified at any point: every change only shows up in the new file produced when you click “Export”, so nothing can be lost no matter how much you experiment.
No. Rotating rewrites the page's angle attribute; nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed, so text, charts and images stay exactly as they were and the file size is essentially unchanged. You can click ↺ / ↻ repeatedly to accumulate the angle — a full 360° returns to the start.
Yes — delete the pages you do not want and the export contains the rest, in the order you arranged them. If there are a lot of pages to pick and deleting them is tedious, you can also use Merge PDF: that tool lets you type a page range like 1-3,5,8 directly, and it works on a single file too.
No — this page works on one file at a time, because the thumbnail order corresponds to the page order of that one document. To combine several documents into one, first use Merge PDF to build a single file, then drag that in here to fix the order and the orientation.
Thumbnails are generated one page at a time with a progress line above the grid, and pages that have already appeared can be worked on immediately — you do not have to wait for the whole document. A few hundred pages takes a moment, but the page will not lock up. Thumbnails are rendered at a very small size, so they use far less memory than exporting images does.
Neither. This site has no accounts, so there is no quota to enforce and no paid tier to promote, and nothing is stamped into the file you download. Bookmarks, forms and annotations are not specially preserved — what you get is a clean new PDF containing the page content.
A PDF with an open password cannot be read; the page says “password required”, so remove the password protection before uploading. Files that WPS and similar software label “encrypted” but that open without a password are decrypted automatically and processed normally.