Page Management
4 toolsFive tools for changing which pages a document contains and in what order. Unlike the raster-based utilities, everything here copies pages rather than re-rendering them, so text stays selectable, vectors stay sharp and nothing is re-compressed.
How do page ranges work across these tools?
All of them accept the same shorthand you would type into a print dialog: single pages, hyphenated ranges, and commas between them, so 1,4,9-12 means what it looks like. The word "last" resolves to the final page, so 10-last works without knowing the page count. Invalid input is rejected with a specific message rather than being silently interpreted — a page number beyond the end of the document, a reversed range, or the same page listed twice all fail loudly. Rearranging is stricter still: every original page must appear exactly once, so a typo cannot quietly drop a page from your document.
When should you extract pages instead of splitting?
Extract when you want one new document containing a specific selection — the signature page, one invoice out of a batch, chapter four. Split when you want the document broken into many files, one per page or per group. Delete is extract in reverse and is the right tool when you know what has to go rather than what has to stay: blank separator sheets from a batch scanner, an internal cover memo, a pricing appendix that should not leave the building. All three produce real PDF pages, not images, so the output is the same quality as the input.
What can comparing two PDFs actually tell you?
Whether the words changed. The comparison extracts the text layer from both documents and reports page counts, word counts, an overall similarity figure and which specific pages differ, which answers the question that matters most in practice — is this returned contract really the version I sent? What it cannot see is a change that leaves the text identical: a different font, a shifted margin, a swapped logo, an altered image. For those you need a visual diff such as diff-pdf, which the comparison page links to and gives you the command for.
Every tool in this category runs on your device
There is no upload step and no processing server. Open your browser’s network panel and run any of them — the only requests are for the page itself.