Removing Pages from a PDF, Step by Step
Open your PDF
Drag the file onto the drop zone or click to browse. The page count appears straight away, so you can see the highest page number you are allowed to reference before typing anything.
Name the pages to drop
Type the pages you no longer want, for example 1, 4-6, 12. Commas separate individual pages and hyphens mark a run. The tool ignores any number above the page count, so a stray digit will not break the result.
Save the trimmed copy
Press Delete Pages. A fresh PDF is built from the pages you kept and offered for download. Your original file is never altered, so you can redo the selection at any time.
What Leaves and What Stays
Deleting pages rebuilds the document from the pages you keep. The listed pages are dropped, and everything else carries over untouched. Here is exactly what changes.
| Item | Listed pages | Pages you keep |
|---|---|---|
| Presence in output | Removed entirely | Carried into the new file |
| Page order | Gone | Unchanged, gaps close up automatically |
| Text and fonts | Discarded | Copied exactly, no re-rendering |
| Images | Discarded | Copied without recompression |
| Bookmarks to removed pages | May become inactive | Links between kept pages stay valid |
Common Reasons to Delete Pages
Drop blank separators
Batch scanners often insert empty pages between documents. List those page numbers to clean the file without rescanning anything.
Trim a cover or back matter
Remove a title page, an advertisement, or a terms sheet before you forward a report to someone who only needs the body.
Cut a duplicate scan
When a page was fed through twice, delete the repeated page number so the reader sees a single clean copy.
Shorten before sharing
Send only the pages that matter, which also makes the file smaller and faster to open on the other side.
If Something Does Not Work
It refuses to delete every page
A PDF must contain at least one page, so the tool blocks a selection that would empty the file. Leave at least one page out of your delete list.
An encrypted file will not open
Password-protected PDFs cannot be read for editing. Remove the protection in a PDF viewer first, then upload the unlocked copy.
The wrong pages were removed
Page numbers start at 1 and match what a viewer shows. Re-open the original, confirm the numbers, and enter them again. Nothing was changed in your source file.