Delete PDF pages
Pick pages in a thumbnail grid and remove the ones you do not want.
or drop files anywhere on this page
Your files stay in this browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About Delete Pages
Delete PDF pages lets you delete pages from a PDF, or from several at once, by marking them on a grid of page thumbnails, all in your browser. Reach for it to drop a blank scanner page, an outdated cover sheet, or a stray page that ended up in the wrong file, without opening the whole document in an editor.
Nothing is removed until you click Apply changes, and every Delete has a matching Undo, so you can mark pages freely and change your mind before committing. Your original file is never touched, and the pages you keep are not re-rendered or recompressed.
How it works
- Add one or more PDFs. Every page appears as a thumbnail, and the Thumbnail size slider makes them larger when you need to read a page before it goes.
- Click Delete under any page you want to remove. The page is veiled and its button turns into Undo.
- For a lot of pages at once, use "Removing a lot of pages? Type a range", which appears when you have added a single file. Write pages and ranges such as "2,4,9-12", or an open range such as "45-" for page 45 to the end.
- Turn on Discard bookmarks if you want to drop the outline entirely.
- Click Apply changes and download your result.
What is removed and what is kept
Each marked page is taken out of the document's page list, so no viewer shows it and the pages after it move up. Pages you keep pass through untouched: text stays text and images stay as they were.
Bookmarks are looked after. One that pointed at a deleted page is dropped, and the rest are repointed to their new page numbers. When a parent bookmark goes, its children move up to take its place. Discard bookmarks removes the outline altogether.
The result keeps your file's name, and several files come back together as one ZIP.
Deleted pages stay inside the file
This tool takes the page out of the document's page list. It does not rewrite the file from scratch, so the deleted page's data stays inside as unused objects that no viewer shows. Deleting a page that held a large image can leave the file almost the same size, and deletion alone is not a way to get sensitive content out of a file.
When either matters, use Extract Pages instead and choose the pages you want to keep. It builds a new file from those pages, so only what they use comes along.
Limits, and what to do when something goes wrong
This tool sets no file size or page count limit of its own. The whole file is read into your browser, so the practical limit is your device's memory.
- A document must keep at least one page. If you mark every page of a file, a note appears and Apply changes stops with a message naming the file. Nothing is produced for that batch until you unmark a page.
- The range box appears only when you add a single file. With several files, use the Delete buttons on the grid.
- The range box marks pages as soon as what you have typed makes sense, so a half-typed entry can catch pages you did not mean: "12" passes through "1", and "9-" means page 9 to the end. Paste the whole range, or check the grid before you apply. Undo on a page puts it back.
- A page number past the end is refused with a message such as "Page 40 is beyond the last page (30)".
- A password-protected PDF asks for its password before it can be used, and a wrong password stops with a message.
A worked example
A 30-page scan has a blank page 12 and a stray fax cover as pages 28 to 30. Add the file, click Delete under page 12, then paste "28-30" into the range box. Four pages now show Undo. Click Apply changes and you download a 26-page PDF.
Frequently asked questions
Because the deleted pages' data stays inside the file as unused objects, so the size often barely changes, most of all when a deleted page held a large image. Extract Pages builds a new file from the pages you choose, and only what those pages use comes along.
Not on its own. The pages disappear from every viewer, but their data remains in the file as unused objects that specialist software can find. Extract Pages builds a fresh file from the pages you keep, which is the safer route when the content must not travel.
No. A PDF needs at least one page. If you mark every page of a file, a note appears and Apply changes stops with a message instead of producing an empty document. Unmark at least one page and apply again.
Yes, as long as you have not clicked Apply changes yet: click Undo on that page to restore it. Nothing is written to the output file until you apply the changes, and your original file is never touched at all.
Yes. Add multiple files and each one is processed separately; you get one result per input, downloaded together as a ZIP, with only that file's marked pages removed. The range box is offered only for a single file, so use the Delete buttons when you have several.
They are dropped automatically, and any child bookmarks move up a level. Bookmarks pointing at pages you kept are repointed to the new page numbers, unless you turn on Discard bookmarks to drop the outline entirely.
"Removing a lot of pages? Type a range" adds a whole set of pages at once, like 2,4,9-12, instead of clicking Delete on each one. It understands single pages, ranges, open ranges such as 45- and the words odd and even, and it adds to whatever you have already marked rather than replacing it.
They reach the same kind of result from opposite ends. Delete Pages marks the ones to drop from the existing file. Extract Pages marks the ones to keep and builds a new file from them, so anything only the dropped pages used is left behind.
The file is read and rewritten entirely in your browser and is never uploaded. Your browser does keep a Recent files entry on your own device, with a copy of files under 5 MB, which you can remove from the Recent files page. Deleted pages can also stay inside the saved file, as described above.
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This tool ran entirely in your browser and nothing was uploaded. Your Recent files list keeps a copy of local files under 5 MB until you clear it. How your files are handled.