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Delete PDF Pages

See every page, click the ones to drop, and download what is left. Runs entirely in your browser.

Remove pages

Click the pages you want gone. Everything else is kept, in the order it is already in.

Seeing the pages is the feature

Most tools that delete PDF pages ask you to type page numbers. That works fine when you already know them, which is almost never — you know that you want to drop the blank separator sheets, the duplicated scan and the page with the old address on it, and finding their numbers means opening the document somewhere else first and counting.

Every page is rendered here as a thumbnail, so the selection is made by recognising pages rather than by counting them. Nothing is selected until you click, because the action is destructive and a default selection is a trap.

What is kept is copied, not rewritten

The pages that survive are copied into a fresh document in one pass, sharing a single object map. That matters more than it sounds: a font or an image used by several pages is carried across once rather than once per page, so the result does not quietly balloon. It also means the surviving pages are byte-identical in content to what they were — no recompression, no resampling, no flattening of text into pictures.

Deleting a page is not redaction

A deleted page is genuinely absent from the file you download, so this is not the false comfort of a black rectangle drawn over text that is still selectable underneath. But it works at page granularity only. If the sensitive part is a paragraph on a page you need to keep, removing the page is not the answer, and no tool that only adds or removes whole pages can be.

Delete PDF Pages FAQ

Is my PDF uploaded to delete a page?

No. The pages are rendered as thumbnails and the new document is assembled by code running on your own device. Deleting a page is very often about removing something that should not be shared — a page of personal details, an internal note, a signature block — and sending the file to a server to do it defeats the point entirely.

Does the rest of the document survive intact?

Yes. The pages you keep are copied across whole: text stays selectable, vector graphics stay vector, images keep the exact bytes they arrived with, and nothing is recompressed. Links between pages that survive keep working; a link pointing at a page you deleted has nothing left to point at, which is unavoidable.

Is the deleted content really gone?

The page is not carried over to the new document, so its content is not in the file you download. That is a genuine removal rather than a redaction of a page that is still there — but if you are removing sensitive text from a page you intend to keep, deleting the whole page is the only thing this tool does. There is no way to blank part of a page here.

Why does the file sometimes get smaller than I expect?

Fonts, images and colour profiles are usually shared between pages, so deleting one page rarely removes a proportional share of the bytes. The pages that remain are copied with a single shared object map, so anything they still use is carried over once rather than once per page — which is also why the result is sometimes smaller than the original minus the page.