Does merging reduce the quality?
No. The pages are copied as they are — the same fonts, the same images, the same vector drawings, at the same resolution. Nothing is re-encoded, so a merged document looks exactly like its sources placed end to end.
Add the files and put them in order. Each one is opened here first, so you see how many pages you are joining before anything is combined — and you can take just pages 2 to 5 of one of them.
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No. The pages are copied as they are — the same fonts, the same images, the same vector drawings, at the same resolution. Nothing is re-encoded, so a merged document looks exactly like its sources placed end to end.
Yes. Every document in the list has an optional page range beside it. Write 2-5, or 1-3, 8, and only those pages are taken from that file; leave it empty and the whole document is used.
No. The new document is created empty and the pages are copied into it, so no title, author, producer or timestamp comes across from any source. If you want a title on the result, add one in whatever you open it with.
Because it is encrypted. A PDF with a password cannot be read without it, by this tool or any other. The message names the file so you know which one to unlock; open it in a reader, save an unprotected copy, and add that.
Only your device's memory. Everything happens in this browser tab, so a hundred small documents are fine and a handful of very large scans may not be. There is no server-side limit because there is no server.