Delete PDF Pages

How to use the Delete PDF Pages

1. Drop your PDF onto the box or click to choose it. A thumbnail of every page appears.
2. Click the pages you want to remove (they turn red), or type their numbers, such as 2, 5-7.
3. Optionally click Find blank pages to mark empty scans automatically, then review the selection.
4. Click Delete pages and save to download the PDF without those pages.

Features

• Mark pages by clicking thumbnails or typing ranges, kept in sync
• One-click blank page detection for scanned documents
• Removed pages are truly gone from the new file, not just hidden
• Keeps the title, author and other document properties
• Shows how many pages will remain before you save
• Private: the PDF is processed on your device only

Common reasons to delete PDF pages

Scanned documents often contain blank backs of single-sided sheets. Exported reports may include a cover or notes page that a client does not need. Bank statements and forms sometimes carry pages of terms you are not required to submit. And before sharing a document, you may want to drop a page with personal details. Deleting those pages makes the file shorter, easier to read and often smaller.

Marking pages: click or type

You can work visually or by number. Clicking a thumbnail marks it in red with a cross; clicking again unmarks it. The box above the thumbnails always shows the marked pages as a compact list, such as 2, 5-7, 12, and you can type into it directly. Typing is faster for long documents: 20-end marks everything from page 20 to the last page. If you type a page that does not exist, the tool tells you instead of guessing.

Finding blank pages automatically

The Find blank pages button draws each page at a small size and measures how much of it is not white. Pages where almost nothing is printed are marked for removal. Scans are rarely perfectly white, so faint scanner noise is ignored, but a page with a short footer, a page number or a heavy show-through from the other side will count as content and stay unmarked. Always glance at the thumbnails before saving.

Removed means removed

Some editors “delete” a page by unlinking it while leaving its text and images inside the file, where they can still be recovered. This tool instead builds a new PDF from the pages you keep, so only their content is written to the output. That matters when you remove a page for privacy. The new file keeps the document title, author and other properties, but bookmarks pointing into the document are not carried over.

Tips and mistakes to avoid

• A PDF must keep at least one page, so the tool will not let you mark every page.
• Page numbers here are the physical positions in the file (1, 2, 3…), which may differ from numbers printed on the pages, such as roman numerals in a preface.
• Password-protected files must be unlocked with their password before pages can be removed.
• If you are removing pages to hide information on a page you keep, deleting is not enough: cover or redact that content in a full PDF editor.

Frequently asked questions