Arrange PDF pages visually
PDF Arranger is a graphical application for manipulating the pages of PDF documents. It presents pages as thumbnails so a document can be assembled or adjusted visually.
Its page-oriented operations include merging documents, splitting documents, rotating pages, cropping pages, duplicating pages, and changing page order. This makes it suited to preparing a revised page sequence rather than editing the original text as a word processor would.
The project is designed around local PDF page work. Review the saved output, especially when a document has special requirements such as forms, signatures, or complex layout elements.
- Best for
- Users who need to combine, reorder, rotate, crop, or separate PDF pages on a desktop.
- Good to know
- PDF Arranger focuses on page-level changes, not authoring or revising the underlying document text.
PDF Arranger works on pages rather than text, so it is the right tool when a document needs a different page order or a combined set.
How to get started
- Install the Windows MSI and open the PDF files you want to work with.
- Drag thumbnails to reorder pages, or use the page controls to rotate, crop, duplicate or delete a selection.
- Select pages from another document and move them into the current one to merge the two.
Save to a new file first and inspect the result, particularly for forms, signatures or page numbers that were printed into the original.
Questions & answers
Is PDF Arranger free?
Yes. It is GPL-licensed open-source software and works offline without an account.
Can PDF Arranger edit the text inside a PDF?
No. It rearranges pages and their contents. Rewriting wording, replacing images or reflowing a paragraph requires a different kind of PDF editor or the original source document.
Will merging change the pages?
The existing page contents are carried over as they were, but page-level features can behave differently after reordering, so always check the saved output.