How do I reverse the page order of a scanned document?

[cvmulligan]

I have scanned a large volume of correspondence, in date order, starting with the oldest and finishing with the newest date. However, I need the finished file to have the newest dated correspondence at the beginning, instead of at the end. Is there an easy way to reverse the page order without invoking any scripts? I work in a large organization where every little change needs to be approved by an administrator.

I was thinking of doing the following -- extract every page as a separate document, then recombine them into one document with the order sorted whichever would product the result.

Thanks!

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can print to "Adobe PDF" with reverse pages.

[shrouq305986074ymg]

Thank you you saved my life. But it took me forever to realize that the text file is the instructions. I wish you named ReadMe or something. But thanks, you are a life saver!

[Ivan302996429ulb]

Thanks a million man, awesome script and thank you for making the installation process painless!

[Copy26373563dqoh]

fantastc, some clever people around! thanks

[roberto_2957]

genius! works well

[rami zins]

Hi I just figured thus out - there is a simple way:
Open the file in Acrobat
Extract all pages to a new folder (you get them all sapareted)
Then Open the Merge PDF Files tool in acrobat and choose all the saparated pages

Select them all and with control+click open a menu - and there it is: Reverse Files. and Combine.

Your done!

[Kade280769921iqp]

Thank you so much, I found this thread and I could not figure it out for the life of me. You are seriously a savior!! thank you!

[shrouq305986074ymg]

control+click 

 click where? right click or left click and on what?

[shrouq305986074ymg]

control+click 

 
click where? right click or left click?

[Ryan38731822hsmg]

For the sake of future seekers: I had to switch from grid view to list view in Combine Files, then sort options appeared in the context menu when right-clicking on a list entry.

[zeigler]

Sample JavaScript to reverse pages:

// Reverse Page Order
// This script reverses the page order of this document
var numPages = this.numPages; // Get the number of pages
for (var i = numPages - 1; i > 0; i--) { // Loop from the last page location to the second
    this.movePage(0, i); // Move the current first page to its correct location
}

 I add it as a new custom command to the Action Wizard on my Acrobat Pro (though I don't think the Action Wizard is supported yet on the new Acrobat interface)

[ehong7097875]

If you're on a Mac, this solution worked for me and took about 5 seconds. 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255491972?sortBy=best

Reversing PDF pages on Preview

Wanted to post the solution. But I wasn't allowed to reply in an earlier thread

1) Open the PDF in Mac Preview. Press Command + P (Print)

2) Scroll down to "Paper Handling" and expand the drop down

3) Choose sheet order as "reverse"

4) Then click on the PDF button on the bottom left

[angie_3410]

THANK YOU. Saved me so much time!

[@mj]

This is awesome. Multiple cool ways to do it.

1. The free tool from
2. Printing in reverse order
3. Reverse order JS from @zeigler 
4. Extract and reverse order merge from Rami

Tx

mj

[@mj]

Yup, this should be just a single command imho.