Can portions of adjacent pages be merged into 1 page?

[drus70979441]

I frequently need to repaginate .pdf documents when the content I need begins partway down one page and goes only a few inches onto the next.  I would love to be able to do it without literally printing the two pages, then cutting, pasting and rescanning.  Surely there must be a way to get the desired content onto one page without incurring the quality losses of my manual method.  Thanks for your assistance.  

[try67]

This kind of thing needs to be done before the file is converted to a PDF. Once that happens, it becomes much more difficult to make such changes to its contents.

[Document Geek]

Use the Edit tool to cut and paste the objects from the second page onto the first. You may need to drag out the sides of the text boxes and make them wider so that they use up more of the side margins (and less vertical height). You may also need to scoot everything up. 

Ideally you'd make these changes before converting to PDF, but sometimes, the PDF creation is automated, or we are supplied the PDFs by some other person or system.

[Abambo]

As the solution of @Document Geek is correct, OP should be aware that there are many reasons why this editing would fail.

And obviously, the method does not work if you have only access to the Reader.

[drus70979441]

Thanks for the response.  I probably should have mentioned that the source materials are scans of historic sheet music. The original source material was not generated by a computer, but hand written.  It is not text that can wrap differently if the margins are wider.   

[try67]

In that case, you should use an image editor (like Photoshop) to do it.