Rearranging PDF pages

Page management is the tidying-up side of PDF editing: rotating, reordering, duplicating and deleting. None of it touches the content on the pages — it just changes which pages appear, and how.

Rotating

Scans often come in sideways or upside down. Rotating a page turns it 90° at a time. Importantly, a proper rotation stores a rotation value in the page object — it's not re-rendering the image, so there's no quality loss and it can be undone cleanly.

Reordering

Drag pages (or nudge them up and down) to fix the sequence. Under the hood the tool rebuilds the document's page list. See how PDFs work for why order is a property of the document structure, not the pages themselves.

Deleting and duplicating

• Delete unwanted pages — blank scan backs, duplicates, drafts.
• Duplicate a page when you need another copy of a template or form.
• Reverse the whole order — useful after a back-to-front scan.

Cropping

Cropping trims the visible area of a page — great for removing scanner margins or focusing on one region. Note that cropping usually hides content rather than deleting it, so for sensitive material combine it with redaction.

You can do every one of these in the FreshPDF editor from the page thumbnails, then download the result.