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Merging a few PDFs into one on Windows without Acrobat

Need to combine five scanned PDFs into a single file for a rental application. Don't have Acrobat and don't want to upload personal documents to some random website. Any built-in or free offline option?
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kritikap Oct 29, 2026
johnny_gadget
if there's a Mac anywhere in the house, Preview does this with nothing to install. open the first PDF, turn on thumbnails in the sidebar, drag the other files in where you want them. on Windows though, PDFsam is the one.
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ravir Oct 08, 2026
johnny_gadget
PDFsam Basic. free, open source, runs entirely on your PC, nothing gets uploaded. pick Merge, drag the five files in, put them in order, done. PDF24 Creator also works offline if you'd rather have something with a few more tools. Windows itself can't merge PDFs. Print to PDF only makes new ones.
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