PDF Arranger
Merge, split, rotate and reorder PDF pages by dragging thumbnails around.
Our verdict
PDF Arranger does the one job that sends people looking for a paid tool on Windows. It shows every page as a thumbnail, and you drag them into order, rotate them, crop them, delete them, or drop in pages from another file.
That covers most of what people actually use Adobe Acrobat for, which is combining a scanned form with a cover letter, or removing the blank page the scanner added.
It is only a page shuffler. Changing the words on a page, filling in a form or signing a document is a job for Okular or Xournal++. Used together, those three cover almost everything a home user needs from PDFs.
What's good
- Drag and drop pages, which is far quicker than any menu-driven tool
- Merges several PDFs into one and pulls single pages out
- Small, quick to learn and does the job without an account
What to know first
- Cannot edit the text or images inside a page
- No optical character recognition for scanned documents
- Very plain interface with no undo history beyond a few steps
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-3.0)
- How you install it
- App store (Flatpak), .deb installer, Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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