How to Remove Pages from a PDF
Pick your file, type the pages you want to drop (for example 2, 5-7, 12), and download a clean copy with those pages removed. The trimmed PDF keeps your original formatting — bookmarks, fonts, and forms remain intact. Because nothing is re-rendered, signatures, hyperlinks, and embedded attachments inside the surviving pages keep working exactly as they did in the original.
A 30-Second Walkthrough
Suppose you scanned a 14-page bank statement and the scanner produced a blank cover at page 1, two duplicate copies of page 6, and a barcode insert at page 13. Drop the file in, type 1, 7, 13 into the page field, and click delete. You'll get back an 11-page PDF — pages 2-6, 8-12, and 14 from the original, in order. Nothing else changes: the metadata title still reads "Statement-Mar.pdf," account numbers still render in the same font, and the file is ready to attach to an email or upload to a portal.
Common Use Cases
- Remove blank or filler pages from scanned documents.
- Delete cover sheets before forwarding a report to a client.
- Strip duplicate pages from a merged document.
- Hide sensitive pages like salary slips inside a multi-document submission.
- Trim sample chapters out of an e-book preview before sharing.
Page-Number Syntax
The input accepts comma-separated single pages and hyphenated ranges. 3 removes only page 3. 3, 5 removes pages 3 and 5. 3-7 removes pages 3 through 7 inclusive (five pages total). You can mix them: 1, 3-5, 9, 12-14 removes seven pages in one pass. Spaces are ignored, and out-of-range numbers (a "100" on a 50-page PDF) are skipped silently rather than throwing an error.
Privacy and Why It Matters
Documents people most often want pages deleted from — bank statements, salary slips, medical records, scanned IDs — are exactly the kind of files that should never travel to a third-party server. This tool runs entirely in your browser using pdf-lib: the PDF is parsed in memory, the pages you flagged are dropped from the page tree, and the result is offered to your downloads folder. Close the tab and there's no copy left anywhere except on your own machine. There's no upload, no analytics on your file's contents, and no per-day quota.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I delete every page?
No — at least one page must remain in the output. To start fresh, just create a new blank PDF instead.
Does this work on encrypted PDFs?
Password-protected PDFs need to be decrypted first. PDFs that only have view restrictions (not open passwords) usually work without a password.
Will the file get smaller after deletion?
Usually yes, proportional to what you removed. For an even smaller result, run the trimmed file through our PDF compressor afterward.
What if I want to keep only a few pages instead?
Use the Split PDF tool with a range like 2-4, 8 — it does the inverse: extracts what you list and discards the rest.