About Delete PDF Pages
Open a PDF and every page shows up as a thumbnail. Mark the pages you want gone, save, and you get a new PDF without them. The remaining pages keep their order and their content: text stays selectable, scans keep their resolution, and nothing is re-compressed. The file on your disk isn’t touched, so the full version is still there if you change your mind.
Removing pages usually makes the file smaller as well. Images and fonts that only the deleted pages used are left out of the new PDF rather than carried along as hidden baggage. How much you save depends on what those pages held: dropping a full-page photo scan saves far more than dropping a page of plain typed text.
Three ways to mark pages for removal
- Click a thumbnail to mark it, and click it a second time if you decide to keep it after all.
- Type ranges such as
1, 4-6, 12into the ranges box, which beats clicking through a long document when you already know the numbers. - Use the quick-select buttons for all, none, odd or even pages. When most of a file has to go, selecting all and then clicking the handful of pages you want to keep is the short route.
At least one page has to stay. A PDF can’t have zero pages, so the tool won’t save while every page is marked.
How to use Delete PDF Pages
- Add your PDFPick the PDF on your computer or phone, or drag it onto the tool. Thumbnails of its pages fill the grid in their current order.
- Mark the pages to removeClick each page you want gone, or type their numbers into the ranges box. The odd and even buttons can mark every other page in a single step.
- Save the shorter PDFSave the file. The download holds only the pages you left unmarked, in their original order, and the page count drops by the number you removed.
When people use it
Blank backs from a duplex scan
Scanning one-sided letters with double-sided mode switched on leaves an empty page behind every sheet. Those blanks are all the even pages, so the even button marks every one of them before you save.
A signed agreement without the internal paperwork
Before you send a countersigned contract back, you may want to drop a fax cover, a routing slip or an internal checklist that was scanned along with it. Mark those pages, save, and send the clean copy.
Cutting a long report down for email
A 60-page report with 40 pages of appendices can be trimmed to the part your reader actually needs. Removing image-heavy appendix pages often brings the file under an attachment limit while the pages that remain look exactly as before.
Delete what you don’t want, or keep what you do?
Deleting and extracting both leave you with a shorter PDF; the difference is which list is quicker to make. Removing two pages out of fifty is a job for this tool. Keeping five pages out of three hundred is faster with Extract PDF Pages, where you select the pages to keep instead. Split PDF fits when you want several files out of one, such as breaking a scanned pile into separate documents, and Merge PDF goes the other way, joining files into one.
Quality, file size and what is left out
| Part of the PDF | After deleting pages |
|---|---|
| Pages you keep | Copied without re-rendering; they look identical |
| File size | Usually smaller, since data used only by deleted pages is dropped |
| Bookmarks | Not carried into the new file |
| Fillable form fields | May stop working |
| Links that pointed to a removed page | No longer lead anywhere |
| Title and author properties | May come out empty |
If you depend on bookmarks or a working form, keep the original alongside the trimmed copy.
Check these before you remove anything
- Printed page numbers stay as they are. Delete page 3 of a numbered report and the next page still says 4 in its footer. If that matters, Add Page Numbers can put a fresh sequence in a corner the old numbers don’t use.
- The ranges box counts physical pages from the first page of the file, which may differ from the numbers printed on the pages.
- Deleting isn’t redacting. A removed page is gone from the new file, but text on the pages you keep is not blacked out, and the original PDF still contains everything.
- Password-protected files need to go through Unlock PDF first, which requires the password.
- Very large PDFs are held in your device’s memory while you work, and a laptop or desktop handles files of several hundred megabytes more reliably than a phone.
Nothing leaves your device
The page reads your PDF into the browser tab, removes the pages there and hands the result straight to your downloads; no copy is sent to a server. Once the page has loaded it keeps working even if you go offline. Our privacy page describes a quick test in your browser’s developer tools that confirms it.