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Delete pages from a PDF

Drop the blank pages a scanner added, the duplicate slide, or the cover sheet nobody needs. Mark pages to remove, check what will be left, and save a cleaned-up copy.

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How to use

  1. Choose the PDF.
  2. Click each page you want to remove — it is crossed out in red — or type a range and press Select these.
  3. Check the counter: it shows how many pages will be removed and kept.
  4. Select Delete, then download the new copy.

How it works

Rather than just hiding the marked pages, the tool builds a new document and copies only the pages you keep into it, together with the fonts and images those pages use. This matters for privacy: a PDF editor that merely unlinks a page can leave its text sitting unused inside the file, where it can be recovered. Here, content that belonged only to removed pages is not written to the new file at all. The title and author fields are carried over.

Worked example

A 9-page scan has blank backs on pages 2, 4 and 6. Typing "2,4,6" and pressing Select these marks three pages; the counter reads "Removing 3 · keeping 6". The saved file has 6 pages, which were pages 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 of the original.

Limitations

  • You cannot delete every page; a PDF needs at least one.
  • Bookmarks or links that pointed to removed pages will no longer work.
  • Bookmarks, document-wide form fields and attachments are not carried into the new copy.
  • If the deleted pages shared fonts or images with remaining pages, those resources stay, so the file may shrink less than expected.

Questions

Is my original file changed?

No. Browsers cannot overwrite files on your disk from a web page; you download a new copy.

Can I undo a deletion?

Before saving, click a marked page again to unmark it. After saving, use your original file to start again.

How do I remove every other page?

Type the pages as a list, for example 2,4,6,8,10, then press Select these.

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