Merging PDFs is one of the most common jobs with documents: a signed form and a scan of an ID, several invoices for one claim, or the chapters of a report. The usual way is to open a website, upload the files and wait for a link. For anything private, uploading is exactly what you may want to avoid.
This guide shows how to merge PDF files in your browser, so the files stay on your device. It covers the steps, how to fix the order and the pages, what the result will and will not keep, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Why merge without uploading
A merged PDF often contains the most sensitive pages you have, such as bank statements, identity documents and contracts. When a website merges them for you on its server, a copy of each file travels over the internet and sits on someone else's machine, at least for a while.
When the merge happens in your browser, your computer does the work and the files are never sent anywhere. The result is the same PDF with one less thing to worry about. Our guide on checking whether a tool uploads your files shows how to verify this on any website.
Before you start
Put the PDFs you want to merge in one folder, so that you can add them together.
Keep the originals. The merge creates a new file and does not change them, but it is good practice to keep a copy.
If a PDF needs a password to open, remove the password first with an unlock tool, because it cannot be merged while it is locked.
If you have photos or scans as images, turn them into a PDF first, then merge the result with the others.
Step by step
Open the Merge PDF tool and drop your PDF files into the box, or click to browse. You can add more files later with the Add PDFs button.
Each file appears as a card with its first page, its name, its number of pages and its size. A file that cannot be read shows a message on its card instead.
Put the files in the order you want them. Use the Earlier and Later buttons under a card, or drag the cards.
Optionally click a card or Edit pages to open the pages of that file and change them. This is explained in the next section.
Check the summary in the sidebar, which shows how many PDFs and pages you are merging and the total size. Type the name you want for the new file.
Click Merge PDFs, then download the result. You can go back to editing if you want to change something and merge again.
Fix the pages before you merge
You do not have to merge whole files. Open a file to see all of its pages, and you can work on each page on its own.
Rotate a page to the left or right, or rotate every page of the file at once.
Delete a page you do not need. Undo delete brings the last page back, and Reset pages restores the whole file.
Crop a page to a part of it... Read more
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