How to Delete Pages from a PDF

Removing pages from a PDF

A PDF often contains pages you do not need. A blank page at the end of a scan. A cover sheet from a fax. A chapter that does not belong in the version you are sending. A form with pages for someone else. Sending the whole file means sending pages that confuse the reader — or pages that should not be shared at all. Deleting them gives you a clean file with only the pages that belong.

This tool shows every page of your PDF as a thumbnail, so you can see what you are deleting before you delete it. Click the pages you want to remove, or type a list — “2, 5-7” removes pages 2, 5, 6, and 7 in one go. The result is a new file that contains only the pages you kept, in their original order. Your original file is never changed, so you can always go back. One file per run, up to 100 MB.

The honest limits are small. At least one page must remain — a PDF with no pages is not a PDF. And the pages you keep are copied, not re-rendered, so the text and images stay exactly the same; deleting pages does not change the quality of the pages that remain, and it does not shrink them. If the file is still too large after deleting pages, the remaining pages are simply large — use the Compress PDF tool for that, because deleting pages only removes whole pages.

A few practical tips. Look at the thumbnails before you click — a page that looks blank at a glance may hold a signature or a stamp. If you are deleting pages from a contract or a legal document, check the page numbers in the text: removing a page can break a reference like “see page 7”. And if you are not sure whether a page is needed, keep it in the original and delete it from a copy — the original is never changed, but a copy with the page removed is easy to make again.

It also helps to know what deleting pages does to the rest of the document. The pages you keep stay in their original order, with their original numbers in the text — so if the document says “see page 7” and you deleted page 3, the reader will find the reference on what is now page 6, and that can confuse. Check the references after you delete, especially in contracts and manuals. Bookmarks and links can also break: a bookmark that pointed to a deleted page has nowhere to go, and a link to a page that is gone will not work. For an ordinary document — a scan, a report, a set of forms — none of this matters. For a document with a table of contents, check it after you delete.

One more practical note: deleting pages is the fastest way to make a file smaller, but only when the pages you delete are large. A file of scanned pages shrinks by the size of the pages you remove; a file of text pages barely shrinks at all, because text is already tiny. If the file must fit a size limit after deleting pages, check the size of the result — and if it is still too large, use the Compress PDF tool on what remains. And if you are deleting pages because they contain something private, remember that deleting a page removes the whole page, not just the private line: if only one line on the page is private, use the Redact PDF tool instead, so you keep the rest of the page.

Everything runs in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded to a server, so a private document stays on your device. There is no account, no daily limit, and no watermark. Open the tool, drop your PDF, pick the pages to remove, and download a clean file.

How to use this tool

1. 1Drop one PDF onto the Delete Pages page — up to 100 MB.
2. 2Look at the thumbnails of all pages.
3. 3Click the pages you want to remove, or type a list like “2, 5-7”.
4. 4Press Delete Pages and download the new file.
5. 5Open the result and check the page count and order are right.