Delete PDF Pages

1. Choose your PDF, or drop it onto the box. It opens in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
2. Click each page you want to remove. Pages marked in red with a bin icon will be deleted; click again to keep a page. Hold Shift and click to mark a whole run of pages at once.
3. Download the new PDF. The button says how many pages will go, for example Delete 3 pages and download. You get a copy named yourfile-pages-deleted.pdf; the original file is not changed.

The pages you keep stay exactly as they were, in the same order. Text you could select and search before still can be; nothing is turned into an image or squashed.

For a long PDF, typing is quicker than clicking. Write the page numbers in the Pages to delete box, separated by commas or spaces. The pages are marked as you type, so you can see straight away what will go.

Odd pages and Even pages mark every other page, counting from the first page of the file. That is handy for a double-sided scan where every back is empty. Blank pages looks at each page and marks the ones with nothing in the middle; a page number in the margin or a scanner’s dark edge doesn’t count. All three add to what you have already marked, and Clear starts again.

Page numbers always count from the first page of the file, even if the pages show different numbers printed on them, like a cover followed by page “1”. Check the number in the corner of each preview.

If it is easier to list the pages you want to keep, use Extract PDF pages instead.

• Your PDF reader can only view. Web browsers and many free readers open PDFs but have no way to remove pages. The tool above edits the file itself, so it works whichever reader you use.
• The PDF is locked. A PDF protected with a password, or against editing, can’t be changed. The tool tells you when this is the case; remove the protection first with the owner’s permission.
• Every page is marked. The tool won’t delete every page, because a PDF with no pages won’t open. Leave at least one page unmarked.
• Two pages were scanned onto one sheet. If a single PDF page shows a two-page spread, deleting removes both halves. To cut it down to one half, use Crop PDF.
• The PDF is digitally signed. You can still delete pages, but the new copy no longer has a valid signature. The tool warns you when it finds one. Ask the signer for a new copy instead if the signature matters.

Yes. Some tools only take a page out of the page list, so its text and pictures are still hidden inside the file and can be recovered. This one removes the page together with its text, pictures and fonts, unless the pages you kept still use them. That is also why the file gets smaller.

The rest of the PDF is tidied up to match:

• Bookmarks and links that jumped to a deleted page are removed, so none of them lead nowhere. A bookmark with others under it stays as a heading, keeping the ones below it.
• Form fields that were only on deleted pages are removed; the rest of the form is left as it was.
• Page labels, such as i, ii, iii for an introduction, stay with the pages they belonged to.

Page numbers printed on the pages themselves don’t change, so deleting page 4 of a numbered document leaves a gap from 3 to 5. Delete pages first, then add page numbers to the finished file.