Will the file get smaller after deleting pages?

Usually only a little. The pages stop being part of the document, but their underlying objects are still written to the output. Run the result through a PDF optimiser if size is what you are after.

Is the rotation permanent?

Yes. Rotation is written into the page itself, so the exported file opens rotated in every reader — unlike a viewer's rotate button, which only affects that viewer.

Can I reorder pages by dragging?

Yes. Drag any thumbnail onto the position you want it to occupy and the rest shift around it.

Do the table of contents and links still work?

Links and bookmarks that point at pages you kept still work, because reordering reuses the original page objects. Anything pointing at a deleted page breaks, since its destination is gone.

How many pages can I handle at once?

There is no hard limit, but past roughly 200 pages you will be asked to confirm, since rendering that many thumbnails can make the interface sluggish.

Page desk

Delete, rotate and reorder PDF pages

Drop unwanted pages, straighten sideways scans and drag pages into the order you want — then download the rebuilt file.

How to delete pages from a PDF

1Open your PDFPick the file and every page appears as a thumbnail, rendered locally in your browser.
2Select pages to removeUse the delete control on any thumbnail. The grid and the export count update immediately.
3Rotate or reorderRotate turns a page 90° at a time; dragging a thumbnail onto another position moves it there.
4DownloadExport writes a new PDF containing exactly the pages shown, in the order shown.

Deleting pages in bulk

The thumbnail grid is the whole interface: every page is visible at once, so removing a run of pages is a matter of clicking through them rather than typing page ranges and hoping you got the boundaries right.

Every action is undoable one step at a time, and starting over restores the document to exactly how it was opened. Nothing is committed until you export.

Rotation: visual versus stored

Rotating here changes the page's stored rotation attribute, which is part of the file itself. Reopen the exported PDF in any reader and the page is still the way you left it.

This is worth distinguishing from viewers that rotate the display only. Those changes live in the application, not the document, and vanish when someone else opens the file.

Extracting pages into a new file

There is no separate extract mode, because extracting is the same operation as deleting: remove everything you do not want and export what remains.

To pull chapter three out of a report, delete the other chapters and download. Reload the original afterwards if you need a different slice — the source file on your disk is untouched.

Why the file does not always get smaller

Deleting a page removes it from the document's page tree, so it no longer renders and no longer counts toward the page total. But the underlying objects — the page's fonts, images and content stream — are still written into the exported file.

For text-heavy pages the difference is negligible. For pages carrying large images you may see very little size reduction at all. If shrinking the file is the actual goal, run the result through a PDF optimiser afterwards.

What happens to bookmarks and internal links

Reordering is implemented by rewriting the document's page tree while keeping the original page objects intact. Because the objects are reused rather than copied, links and bookmarks that point at pages you kept continue to resolve correctly.

Links pointing at pages you deleted have nothing left to target and will stop working. That is unavoidable — the destination genuinely no longer exists.

FAQ

Will the file get smaller after deleting pages?: Usually only a little. The pages stop being part of the document, but their underlying objects are still written to the output. Run the result through a PDF optimiser if size is what you are after.
Is the rotation permanent?: Yes. Rotation is written into the page itself, so the exported file opens rotated in every reader — unlike a viewer's rotate button, which only affects that viewer.
Can I reorder pages by dragging?: Yes. Drag any thumbnail onto the position you want it to occupy and the rest shift around it.
Do the table of contents and links still work?: Links and bookmarks that point at pages you kept still work, because reordering reuses the original page objects. Anything pointing at a deleted page breaks, since its destination is gone.
How many pages can I handle at once?: There is no hard limit, but past roughly 200 pages you will be asked to confirm, since rendering that many thumbnails can make the interface sluggish.