Delete PDF Pages

Drop blank scans, outdated appendices, cover sheets or pages with personal details before you share a PDF. Type the pages to remove and download a clean copy. The remaining pages are copied into a new file, so fonts and images that only the deleted pages used are left out and the file usually gets smaller. Everything happens in your browser.

How to use this tool

1. Choose the PDF.
2. Type the pages to delete: single pages, ranges and keywords, such as 2, 5-7, last, or even.
3. Download the new PDF; the result lists the deleted pages and the page count before and after.

Formula

Pages after = pages before − number of distinct pages deleted. Ranges include both ends, so 5-7 deletes pages 5, 6 and 7.

“2-” means page 2 to the end, “odd” is pages 1, 3, 5… and “even” is 2, 4, 6…. Repeated or overlapping entries are counted once.

Example

A 12-page scanned application with a blank page 4 and two unneeded pages at the end: enter 4, 11-12. Three distinct pages are removed, leaving 12 − 3 = 9 pages, and the result shows “Deleted pages: 4, 11-12”.

Delete or extract?

Deleting suits a few unwanted pages. When you only need a handful of pages out of many, it is quicker to list those with Extract PDF Pages instead. To hide part of a page rather than a whole page, crop it — but cropped areas are only hidden, not removed, so delete the page if the information must be gone.