How to Delete Pages From a PDF

Select a PDF.
Choose the pages or ranges you want removed.
Review which pages will remain.
Export the PDF with those pages removed.

What this tool changes

Removes the selected pages and produces a new PDF containing only the remaining pages.

What it preserves

Content, order, and dimensions of the pages you keep.

Good to know

If every page is selected for deletion, there is nothing left to export.
Deleting rebuilds the document, so bookmarks and document properties such as title and author do not survive the export.

Deleting or keeping — name whichever list is shorter

Removing pages and extracting pages produce identical results by opposite routes: one names what goes, the other names what stays. Both end with a single shorter file, so the only question worth asking is which list is shorter to type.

Keeping more than half the document? Delete the few you do not want. Keeping less than half? Extract PDF Pages is faster. Typing 1-13,17-40 when you could have typed 14-16 is not just slower — it is two more chances to mistype a boundary and quietly ship the wrong document.

If what you actually want is several documents rather than one shorter one, neither is your tool: that is Split PDF.

Page numbers mean sheets, not printed labels

Enter 7 and you remove the seventh sheet from the front, not the page with "7" printed at the bottom. Those differ in almost every real document, because covers, title pages, and front matter are rarely numbered.

A report with an unnumbered cover and an unnumbered contents page prints "1" on its third sheet. Remove the page labelled "1" by typing 1 and you delete the cover instead. Count sheets from the front, or click thumbnails and let the selection build itself — which removes the arithmetic entirely.

A selection that would remove every page is rejected with a clear message rather than producing an empty file, which is a genuinely annoying thing to discover after emailing it.

Removing a page is not redacting a page

Deleting removes the whole page, and the page you dropped is not copied into the new document in any form. That part is sound and it is a real operation.

What it does not do is remove anything sensitive on a page you kept. If a page carries both the figure you need and a name that should not travel, keeping that page sends the name. Cropping does not solve this — content outside a crop box stays in the file — and a black rectangle drawn over text is a rectangle drawn over text, with the words underneath still selectable.

If something must not reach the recipient, remove the entire page. No tool on this site claims to redact, and none of them do.

What deleting actually frees, measured

A page you remove takes its weight with it, and the exact amount is worth knowing because the operation next to it behaves in the opposite way.

We removed the third page from a three-page scan of just under four megabytes. The output was 1,337,199 bytes smaller. That same page, exported on its own, weighed 1,337,776 bytes — a gap of 577 bytes, or four hundredths of one percent. Deleting a page frees essentially exactly what that page was carrying, with no rounding worth worrying about.

Cropping does not work like this at all. A crop hides a region rather than removing it, and in the same series of measurements a cropped document came out 135 bytes larger than the original. So if a document is heavy because of what sits on a particular page, deletion is the operation that helps, and cropping that page down to a sliver would not save a thing. Both results and their methods are in the measurements page.

Deleting rebuilds the document, and a rebuild forgets things

To remove a page, this tool copies the pages you are keeping into a new document rather than cutting one out of the old one. What you download is a fresh file assembled from your pages.

That has consequences worth knowing before you pass the result on, and we measured them rather than assuming. The title, author, and subject fields come back empty, and the creator field is replaced with the name of the library that performed the rebuild. Bookmarks do not survive either: a rebuild carries what the library understands, and it has no concept of a document outline.

Losing the metadata is usually welcome. The author field is filled in automatically by most software from your computer account, frequently with your real name, and a rebuild strips it. It is not a redaction guarantee, though — it leaves data held inside embedded images untouched, and what hidden data a PDF carries covers what remains.

Losing the outline is the one that surprises people. On a short scan it costs nothing, because scans have no outline to begin with. On a long reference document that readers navigate by its side panel, it is the most visible thing the export changes.

Frequently asked questions

Is my original file changed?: No. PDF Editing Tools never modifies the file you selected — it always creates a new output file.
Can I delete a range of pages at once?: Yes, you can multi-select pages by range (e.g. 4-9) or individually before deleting.
Does deleting pages make the file smaller?: Yes, by very close to what those pages weighed. Removing one page of a three-page four-megabyte scan freed 1,337,199 bytes, against 1,337,776 for that page exported on its own. Cropping is the operation that does not save space.
Will my name still be in the file after deleting a page?: No. Deleting rebuilds the document, which empties the title, author, and subject fields. Treat that as a side effect rather than a redaction guarantee: it does not touch data stored inside embedded images.
Do bookmarks survive when pages are deleted?: No. The export is rebuilt from the pages you keep, and the rebuild has no concept of a document outline, so a navigation pane is lost. Page content, size, and orientation come through unchanged.