How to merge, split and organize PDF pages

Most PDF chores are about pages: putting several files together, pulling a few pages out, or fixing the order. GrovePDF has five tools for this. None of them recompress your pages, so the result looks exactly like the original.

Merge PDF files without losing quality

Merge PDF combines 2 to 20 PDFs (up to 100 MB in total) into one file.

  1. Open Merge PDF and choose your files.
  2. Put them in order with the arrows. The × button removes a file from the list.
  3. Select Merge PDFs and download the result.

Each page is copied exactly as it is: text, pictures and scans are not recompressed or resized. One thing to know: bookmarks from the original files are not carried over.

Split PDF pages online, free

Split PDF has several modes:

  • Extract pages: type a range such as 1-3, 5, 9-12, or click the pages you want. Leave the end open (10-) to go to the last page.
  • Every page: one PDF per page.
  • Every N pages: equal parts, for example chapters of 10 pages.
  • By sections: your own parts, separated by semicolons: 1-3; 4-9; 10-.

Pages come out in the order you type them, so 5, 1-4 puts page 5 first. When a split makes several files, they arrive together in one ZIP.

Reorder, rotate and add pages

Organize PDF shows every page as a thumbnail. Drag pages into place (or use the arrow buttons on a phone), delete pages, rotate them, and insert blank pages with the + button. Add more PDFs and all their pages appear together, which makes it a flexible way to merge and sort in one go.

Remove pages you don't need

Remove pages is the quickest way to drop blank, extra or private pages. Click each page, Shift-click to pick a run, or type numbers such as 2, 5-7. Every other page stays exactly as it was, with its text, links and quality.

Removing a page is not the same as hiding something on a page. To remove a name or number from a page you keep, use Redact PDF.

Turn pages the right way up

Rotate PDF fixes scans that came out sideways or upside down. Rotate every page, or click the button under a single page to turn just that one a quarter turn at a time. The rotation is saved in the file, so it opens the right way in every reader, and nothing is lost in quality. You can rotate several PDFs at once.

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