Remove PDF pages

Delete unwanted pages from your document quickly and easily.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I choose which pages to remove?

Click each page's thumbnail to select it for removal — selected pages are highlighted, and you can deselect them the same way.

Can I remove all the pages?

No, at least one page must remain in the final document.

Are my files uploaded anywhere?

No, pages are removed entirely in your browser — your PDF never leaves your device.

Will the remaining pages change quality?

No, the pages you keep are untouched; only the selected pages are removed.

Can I undo a page selection before saving?

Yes, use 'Clear selection' to start over, or click a selected page again to deselect it.

Should I use Remove pages or Extract pages?

It depends which side is smaller. If you are dropping a handful of pages from a long document, remove them. If you only want a handful and the rest can go, extract those instead — it is the same result with far less clicking.

Are the deleted pages really gone from the file?

Yes. The output is rebuilt from only the pages you kept, so the removed ones are not present in the file at all and cannot be recovered. This makes page deletion a genuinely safe way to remove sensitive content, unlike drawing a black box over it in an editor, which leaves the text underneath.

Why don't the printed page numbers match any more?

Because those numbers are ink on the page, printed when the document was created. Removing a page renumbers the document but cannot change what was already drawn on the surviving pages, and any table of contents will now point to the wrong places. Renumber at the source if that matters.

Do bookmarks and links still work?

Links and bookmarks pointing at surviving pages still work. Ones pointing at a deleted page have no target left and will not resolve. Annotations and form fields attached to surviving pages come across untouched.

Can I remove all the pages?

No — a PDF has to contain at least one page to be a valid file, so the tool will not let you deselect everything. If you want nothing from the document, you simply don't need the document.

Deleting pages from a PDF is a subtractive copy: the pages you keep are transplanted into a new document, and the ones you marked are simply not brought along. Nothing that survives is re-rendered, so text stays selectable, images keep their original resolution and vector artwork stays sharp.

The usual reasons are mundane and constant — a blank verso the scanner picked up, a fax cover sheet, an appendix nobody needs, a duplicated page from a double feed. Being able to see the pages while you choose is most of the work, so the tool renders a thumbnail grid and you click the ones to remove.

Everything runs locally in your browser, so the page count doesn't matter and the document is never uploaded.

How to delete pages from a PDF

Add the PDF
Drop it in or choose it. Every page is rendered as a thumbnail, which takes a moment on a long document but is what makes selecting reliable.
Mark the pages to remove
Click a thumbnail to mark it for deletion; click again to keep it. Marked pages are shown struck through, so at a glance you can see exactly what the output will contain.
Check what's left
The count of remaining pages updates as you go. You cannot remove every page — a PDF with no pages is not a valid document.
Apply and download
The new PDF is built locally from the pages you kept. Your original file is untouched.

Remove, extract or split?

Three tools overlap here, and picking the right one saves a second pass:

Remove PDF pages: You want the document minus a few pages. Best when most pages are staying — deleting four pages from a hundred.
Extract PDF pages: You want a few pages as a new document, and the rest are irrelevant. Best when most pages are going — pulling four pages out of a hundred. The same result as removing ninety-six, with far less clicking.
Split PDF: You want several documents out of one, each holding a consecutive run of pages. Cutting rather than selecting.

What happens to the rest of the document

Page content survives exactly, along with the annotations, comments and form fields attached to each surviving page. What changes is anything that referred to the document as a whole.

Page numbering shifts: remove page 5 and the old page 6 becomes page 5. If page numbers are printed on the pages themselves — as they usually are — those printed numbers no longer match, and there is no way to fix that without re-rendering pages the tool is deliberately preserving. A table of contents will point to the wrong places.

Internal links and bookmarks pointing at a deleted page have nothing left to resolve to. Links to surviving pages continue to work.

If accurate page numbering matters more than fidelity, renumber the document at the source that produced it, rather than after the fact.

The deleted pages are genuinely gone

This is a real deletion, not a hidden one. The output document is built from only the pages you kept, so the removed pages are not present in the file in any form — they cannot be recovered by a reader, un-hidden by a tool, or found by anyone inspecting the bytes.

That makes this a legitimate way to remove a whole page of sensitive content before sharing a document, which is worth noting because covering content with a black rectangle in an editor does not remove it. If an entire page must go, deleting it here does the job properly. If only part of a page is sensitive, deleting the page is still the safer option than obscuring the text on it.

Because it is genuine, keep your original. Nothing here modifies the file you started with, but once you have only the trimmed copy there is no undo.

Working with long documents

Every page is rendered as a thumbnail so you can see what you are removing, which is the memory-hungry part on a document of several hundred pages. The pages themselves are copied rather than rendered, so the build is fast once the selection is made.

Your file and your selection are saved to your browser's own storage as you work, and the page URL picks up a session id — so if the tab is closed or reloaded, reopening that URL restores both the document and the pages you had marked.

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