organise the pages of a PDF
See every page, put them in the right order, turn the ones that are sideways and drop the ones you do not need.
There is no Google Drive or Dropbox button on purpose: those send the file through a server. Here is what happens instead.
in three steps
- Drop the PDF in, or choose it. Every page is drawn as a thumbnail so you can see what is where.
- Move pages with the arrows, turn the sideways ones, and mark for removal anything you do not want.
- Save the new order. The pages are copied, not re-rendered, so nothing loses quality.
how it works
Every page is drawn as a thumbnail, because the thing people actually come here to do is find the page that is upside down — and you cannot find that in a list of numbers. The drawings appear one by one, so a long document is usable immediately instead of after a freeze.
The numbers under the thumbnails are the page numbers in the original document, and they do not change when you move a page. That is deliberate: it is how you keep track of what you moved where.
Saving copies the page objects into a new document rather than re-rendering them, so text stays text and images keep the compression they already had. Rotation is stored as a property of the page, which is what every reader honours.
why doing this locally matters here
To show you your pages, a tool has to render them. On a server that means the whole document is opened, drawn and held in memory by someone else's machine — for a scanned contract or a medical file, that is the entire content, decoded and legible, on a computer you do not control.
Here the rendering happens in the tab that already has the file. The pictures you see were drawn a few centimetres from your eyes and never existed anywhere else.
questions
Where does my PDF go?
Nowhere. Your browser draws the pages to show you the thumbnails and rebuilds the document from the ones you kept, all in this tab. Nothing is uploaded. Drawing the pages does load pdf.js, this site's own copy, so the job log shows one request to keepfileslocal.com and none to anywhere else — it reports what actually happened rather than the more flattering figure.
Does rebuilding the document lose quality?
No. The thumbnails are drawings made to show you the pages, but the saved file is built by copying the original page objects: the text stays text, images keep the compression they already had, and nothing is re-rendered. Only the order and the rotation flag change.
My scan is sideways. Will turning it here fix it everywhere?
Yes. Rotation in a PDF is a property of the page, and this tool changes that property rather than redrawing the pixels, which is what every reader honours. A page already stored at 90 degrees and turned another 90 here ends up at 180, exactly as you would expect.
Can I get a removed page back?
Before you save, yes — a removed page stays in the grid, faded, with a button to keep it again. After you save, the new document simply does not contain it, but your original file is untouched on your disk, so nothing is ever really lost.
Why are only some pages shown as pictures?
Drawing a page costs work and memory, so a document longer than 120 pages shows the first 120 as thumbnails and the rest as numbered placeholders. Those pages can still be moved, turned and removed; they just are not drawn, which keeps a long document from freezing the tab.
Is this really free?
Yes. No account, no page limit, no watermark on the result. Advertising pays for the hosting, and since your document never reaches us there is nothing about it to sell.