Remove Pages
Delete unwanted pages from a PDF.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your data never leaves your device — nothing is uploaded to our servers.
About Remove Pages
Deleting pages is straightforward, with one counter-intuitive consequence worth knowing: the file often barely shrinks. Removing a page drops its content stream, but shared resources — embedded fonts, colour profiles, images referenced from several pages — usually remain. Deleting half a document and finding it is still 90% of its original size is normal, not a failure. The pages you keep are copied unchanged, so nothing is re-encoded.
When to use Remove Pages
Stripping pages before sharing
Remove internal notes, pricing appendices or blank separators before a document goes to a client.
Cleaning up a scan
Feeder scans routinely capture blank backs of double-sided pages. Removing them halves the page count.
Cutting boilerplate
Drop the terms-and-conditions appendix nobody reads before circulating a report internally.
Limitations worth knowing
- File size often drops far less than the page count, because embedded fonts and shared resources are retained.
- Bookmarks and internal links pointing at deleted pages will no longer resolve.
- Page numbers printed on the pages themselves are page content and will now be non-consecutive.
- There is no undo. Keep your original.
How to remove pages
- 1
Load the PDF and check its page count.
- 2
Enter the pages or ranges to delete, such as 2 or 5-8.
- 3
Confirm your selection — deletion applies to the pages you list, not the ones you keep.
- 4
Download the result and verify the remaining pages are the ones you expected.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my file still large after deleting most pages?+
Because page count and file size are only loosely related. Embedded fonts, colour profiles and images shared across pages stay in the file when individual pages go. If size is your goal, run the compressor afterwards — deletion alone frequently reclaims very little.
Do I list the pages to delete or the pages to keep?+
The pages to delete. If it's easier to describe what you want to keep — for example keeping only pages 1–3 of a 50-page file — use the Extract Pages tool instead, which works the other way round.
Are the remaining pages re-compressed?+
No. Kept pages are copied as-is, so text stays selectable and images keep their original quality. This is a structural edit, not a re-render.
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