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Merge, Split & Organize guides

Combining documents, pulling pages out, and putting them in the right order.

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Delete pages from PDF

How to Delete Pages from a PDF (and Get the Page Count Right)

The blank backs of a duplex scan, an internal cover sheet, a section that should not leave the building. All three are the same job. Here is how to say which pages go, in one pass, and how to check you got it right.

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How to insert PDF pages

How to Insert Pages into a PDF, or Add One PDF to Another

A signed page has to go back in at page seven, an appendix has to go on the end, a cover sheet has to go in front. All three are one job: a split and a merge. Here is the method and the arithmetic that proves it worked.

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Remove blank pages

How to Remove Blank Pages from a Scanned PDF

A double-sided scan of one-sided paper gives you a blank page after every real one, and a file twice the size it should be. Here is how to find them in a minute and take them all out in one pass.

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Reorder, rotate and delete pages

How to Reorder, Rotate and Delete PDF Pages Online

A scan came in upside down, the appendix is in the wrong place, and two pages should not be there at all. One pass through Organize PDF fixes all three. Here is how it works.

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How to split a PDF

How to Split a PDF: Extract Pages or Break a Document into Parts

You need pages 4 to 9 of a 60-page report, or one file per page from a scanned batch. Both are a split. Here is how page ranges work, which tool to use when, and how to avoid the mistakes that leave you re-doing it.

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How to merge PDF files

How to Merge PDF Files into One Document (Free, No Sign-Up)

Combining a contract, its appendix and a signed cover page into one PDF should take a minute. Here is how to do it, how to control the order, and the handful of things that go wrong.

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