Remove pages
Delete the pages you name and keep the rest.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, and you can verify that in your browser's network tab. Verify it yourself: open your browser's network tab and watch. You will see one small request asking whether you have tasks left - a tool name and a hash, never the file.
What this does
This deletes the pages you name and rebuilds the document from the ones that remain. The surviving pages are copied without being re-encoded, so nothing about them changes except their numbering.
Reach for it when a document arrived with pages you do not want to pass on: a cover sheet from a fax, blank separators a scanner inserted, an internal appendix that should not go to a client, or duplicate pages a feeder pulled twice.
How it works
- Drop the PDF onto this page and wait for the page count to appear.
- Type the pages to delete. Single numbers, ranges and the words odd, even and last all work, and they can be mixed.
- Check the count of pages that will be removed, shown before you commit.
- Press Remove pages.
- The download starts by itself.
The range you type describes what goes away, not what stays. That sounds obvious, but it is the opposite of Extract pages, and it is worth being deliberate about which of the two you actually want - the same input produces opposite results in each.
Removing every page is refused rather than performed. A PDF with no pages is a file no reader will open, so instead of writing something broken the tool explains what happened.
The file usually shrinks by less than you expect. Removing a page removes its content stream, but shared resources such as fonts and a repeated letterhead stay behind if any surviving page still references them. If size is the goal, follow up with Compress PDF.
Bookmarks pointing at deleted pages are dropped, and anything nested beneath them is promoted rather than deleted with them, so removing a chapter opener does not silently take its sections away too.
Questions people ask
- How do I write the pages to remove?
- Use single numbers, ranges, or keywords, separated by commas: 3 removes one page, 4-9 removes a run, 12- removes everything from page 12 to the end, odd removes every odd page, and last removes the final one. They can be combined, as in 1, 5-7, last.
- Can I get the pages back afterwards?
- Not from the output file - the pages are genuinely gone. Your original is untouched though, because the tool never modifies the file you dropped in; it writes a new one. Keep the original until you have checked the result.
- Can it find blank pages for me?
- Not yet. A page can look blank while carrying invisible content, and guessing wrong would delete something you needed. For now, open the document, note which pages are blank, and list them.
- Why is the file barely smaller after removing half the pages?
- Because most of the size is usually in shared resources - embedded fonts, a logo on every page, colour profiles - and those stay as long as any remaining page uses them. Run Compress PDF afterwards if size is what you are trying to fix.