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Delete Pages From PDF

Pick a PDF, see one card per page with its number, rotation and size, tick the pages you want gone, and download the file without them. The page counter updates as you tick, the original order of the remaining pages is kept, and the file never leaves your browser.

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What is a PDF page deleter?

A PDF page deleter takes a document you already have and writes a new copy of it with the pages you name left out. It is not the same as deleting text inside a page: the whole page object, its text, images and annotations go together, and the pages you keep close the gap.

The tool on this page works in two halves. First it reads the file and lays out one card per page, showing the page number, the current rotation and the page box size in points. You then tick the pages to remove — by hand, with Select odd / Select even, or with Select all — while a live counter tells you how many pages remain. When you press the button, the kept pages are copied into a fresh document with the pdf-lib library and offered back as a download.

Nothing is re-rendered. The kept pages are moved byte-for-byte as page objects, so text stays selectable vector text, images keep their original resolution, and a page that was rotated in the original file stays rotated the same way. The removed pages are not present in the output at all — they are not hidden, blanked or masked.

The whole job happens in your browser. Your PDF is read from your own disk with the browser's file API, the new file is built in the tab, and it is saved back to your device. No upload, no server, no account, no copy kept anywhere.

How to use this PDF page remover

Press Choose a PDF file and pick the document. The tool shows the file name, the number of pages and the file size, and it says so if the file cannot be read as a PDF.
Look at the page cards. Each one shows the page number, its size in points and its current rotation, so you can spot the odd landscape page or the page that is upside down before you remove anything.
Tick the pages you want to delete, or use Select odd / Select even for alternating pages and Clear to start over. The counter changes as you go: 6 of 6 pages remain, then 4 of 6 pages remain.
Read the kept-pages line under the counter. It lists the pages that will be in the download, in the order they will appear.
Press Delete pages and build the PDF. The tool refuses and explains itself if nothing is ticked, or if everything is ticked — a PDF cannot be saved with zero pages.
Press Download PDF without the removed pages to save the new file, named after the original with -pages-removed added.

Worked example

The test file is dp-6page.pdf, a six-page PDF built for this test that is 2,287 bytes (2.23 KB). It was opened on this page in a browser, and the numbers below are what the tool itself reported.

Loaded: the counter read Page counter: 6 of 6 pages remain. 0 pages ticked for removal., and the kept-pages line listed pages 1 to 6.

Pages 2 and 5 ticked for removal. The counter changed to Page counter: 4 of 6 pages remain. 2 pages ticked for removal., and the kept-pages line became 1, 3, 4, 6. Pressing the button reported “Removed 2 pages (2, 5) from dp-6page.pdf. The new file has 4 pages: 1, 3, 4, 6. Original 2.23 KB → download 1.70 KB.” — so the download, dp-6page-pages-removed.pdf, is 1,736 bytes (1.70 KB) with four pages in the original order:

Original page 1 — 400 × 700 pt, rotation 0°
Original page 3 — 402 × 702 pt, rotation 180°
Original page 4 — 403 × 703 pt, rotation 270°
Original page 6 — 405 × 705 pt, rotation 90°

Every size and rotation is the one the original page had, so deleting pages did not re-render, resize or re-rotate anything. The two removed pages are simply absent from the download. The kept pages still carry their text and font resources, and the document properties of the original (a title and an author in this test file) came across with them.

Wrong input fails safely. With all six pages ticked, the tool answered “Nothing was saved: every one of the 6 pages is ticked for removal, and a PDF must keep at least one page. Untick at least one page — or press Clear — and try again.” and produced no download. With no page ticked it answered that the output would be a copy of the original and produced no download either. In both cases the file on disk was untouched.

Who is this PDF page deleter for?

Office and admin work: drop the cover sheet, the duplicate scan or the page that came out blank from a bundle before it goes into the filing system, without buying a desktop editor.
Anyone sending a document out: remove the page with the salary breakdown, the internal comment page or the appendix the recipient does not need, and send a smaller file that says only what it should.
Students and researchers: cut a page that was inserted twice, or trim a scanned chapter down to the pages you have to submit, while keeping the rest of the document in its original order.
People handling confidential files: contracts, payslips, medical letters and ID scans can be edited on a work laptop because the file is processed in the browser and never uploaded to a third party.

What happens to page numbers, bookmarks and links

The download is a new document built from the pages you keep, not an edit of the original file. That has consequences worth knowing before you rely on the output.

Numbers printed on the page do not change. A page number that is part of the page content stays exactly as it was. Remove page 2 from a six-page file and the page printed “3” becomes the second page of the document but still reads “3”. Nothing re-stamps or renumbers the remaining pages, so a document that was numbered 1 to 6 will show 1, 3, 4, 6 on four pages.
Bookmarks are not carried over. The tool does not rebuild the outline tree, so the download has no bookmark panel at all — that includes bookmarks pointing at pages you kept. If you depend on them, add them again after deleting pages.
Internal “go to page” links are not remapped. The link annotation is copied with the page it sits on, but its target is not re-pointed at the new page order, so such a link can land on the wrong page or stop responding. Links to web addresses (https://…) contain no page reference and keep working.
Comments, highlights and stamps go with their page. They are annotations of the page object, so a note on page 4 is still on page 4 of the download (now the third page), and annotations on a removed page are gone with it.
Form fields stop being fillable. The form definition that makes text boxes, checkboxes and signature fields interactive is not copied, so in the download those boxes are shown as static shapes. Delete pages before a form is filled, or re-create the fields afterwards, if the form has to stay usable.
Document properties are copied when they exist. Title, author, subject and keywords are read from the original and written into the new file. The Creator and Producer lines are set by the library that writes the output, and any XMP metadata block from the original is not carried over.
The original file is never modified. Everything is written to a new file, so a wrong deletion costs one extra download, not a re-download of the source.

Common use cases

Removing a blank or duplicated page that came out of a scanner or a two-sided copy.
Deleting a cover sheet, price page or internal memo before sending a PDF to a client.
Trimming an old page or two out of a form packet without touching the pages that stay.
Dropping the page that repeats a table across a page break, or a page of placeholder text.
Cutting a page you added by mistake, such as a stray export page at the end of a report.

Pro tips

Check the counter twice. “4 of 6 pages remain” plus the kept-pages list is a full description of the output; read both before you download.
Alternating blanks? Use parity. Select even or Select odd ticks every other page in one click, which is the fastest way to strip the blank backsides from a single-sided scan. Check the result on the grid before building.
Use rotation and size as landmarks. A lone landscape page in a portrait document, or a page with a 180° rotation, is easy to find on the grid even when the page numbers are not printed anywhere.
Select all is deliberately blocked. It is there so you can see the guard work: a PDF with no pages is not a PDF, so the tool tells you instead of saving an empty file.
Keep the original until the new file is checked. Open the download and skim the page count in your reader; if a page is missing by mistake, the untouched original is still on your disk.

FAQ

Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?

No. The file is read from your disk by the browser, the pages are copied with the pdf-lib library on your own device, and the download is built in the tab. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and no account is needed.

Why will the tool not delete every page?

A PDF must contain at least one page, so a file with zero pages cannot be saved. If every page is ticked, the tool says so and produces no download instead of writing a broken file. Untick at least one page — or press Clear — and run it again.

Can I delete blank pages from a PDF?

Yes, but you have to identify them yourself: the grid shows each page's number, size and rotation, not its contents. For scans where the blank backsides fall on every other page, Select odd or Select even does it in one click; then read the counter before downloading.

Do bookmarks and outlines survive?

No. The download is a new document built from the pages you keep, and the bookmark tree is not carried into it — every bookmark is gone, including ones that pointed at pages you kept. Add them again afterwards if you rely on them.

Do the remaining pages get renumbered?

No. A page number printed on a page is part of that page's content, so it stays as it was: delete page 2 from a six-page file and the page printed “3” is now the second page but still reads “3”. The tool does not re-stamp page numbers.

Does deleting pages reduce the quality of what is left?

No. The kept pages are copied as they are — text stays vector and selectable, images keep their original resolution, and fonts and graphics are not re-rendered or re-compressed. Only the pages you tick are dropped, and they are absent from the output rather than blanked.

What happens to internal links, comments and form fields?

Comments, highlights and stamps travel with the page they sit on. Internal “go to page” links are copied but their target is not remapped, so they can land on the wrong page or stop working. Form fields do not survive: text boxes and checkboxes in the download are no longer fillable. Web links keep working because they hold no page reference.

Can I undo a deletion?

Yes, by starting over: the original file on your disk is never modified, so reload the page, choose the same PDF and build the file again with the right pages removed. The tool keeps no copy of anything you loaded.

Can I delete pages from a password-protected PDF?

No. A file that needs an open password cannot be read, and the page reports that instead of producing a broken download. Remove the password in a PDF reader (or print the file to a new PDF), then delete pages from the unlocked copy.

Is there a page or file-size limit?

There is no fixed limit; the real constraint is your device's memory, because the whole document is held in the tab while the new file is built. Documents of a few hundred pages are handled comfortably. Very long files make a long page grid, but the counter and the four selection buttons still work.

Does it work on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It runs in the browser on iOS and Android, and the download link behaves the same way. A large PDF is slower to rebuild on a phone than on a desktop, so keep the screen awake while it works.

Is deleting pages the same as extracting them?

No, though the two are mirror images. Deleting marks the pages to drop and keeps everything else in its original order; extracting picks pages and keeps only those, in the order you choose. When the list of pages you want is short, extracting is usually quicker to set up.