Delete pages from a PDF

Remove blank pages, outdated sections, accidental duplicate scans, or a covering letter carrying a home address before a PDF goes any further. Enter individual page numbers and ranges such as 2, 5-8, 12. Every number is checked against the real page count first, so asking for page 12 of a ten-page file returns a plain message naming the limit rather than writing a broken document.

Pages are unlinked from the document’s page tree rather than re-rendered. That is why the rest of the file survives intact: text stays selectable, vector graphics stay sharp, links and embedded images are untouched, and no page becomes a screenshot of itself.

It also sets the boundary of what deletion means here. Readers follow the page tree, so a removed page does not display, print, or appear when you search the result, but the objects behind it can still sit inside the saved bytes. The clue is the file size, which often barely moves after dropping half a long document. For ordinary tidying that is unimportant. When a page carries something that must not be recoverable, use the page extractor instead and name the pages you want to keep, because that route builds a fresh document and copies only those pages across.

At least one page has to remain. A request to delete everything is refused rather than producing a zero-page file that most readers treat as corrupt. Password-protected documents must be decrypted first, since the structure cannot be read while it is encrypted.

Nothing is uploaded. The document is opened, edited, and saved by a worker inside the browser tab, which matters most for exactly the files people want pages taken out of: contracts, medical letters, and bank statements that were never meant to pass through a stranger’s queue. The summary afterwards reports how many pages went and how many remain, so a mistyped range is obvious before you send the file on.