Delete PDF Pages
Your files stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server.
Drop your files here
or pick them from your device
How it works
- Drop a PDF onto the bench, or pick one from your device.
- Type the pages to remove — single numbers, ranges, or both, like 2, 5-7.
- Press Delete pages and download the shortened file.
Positions in the file, not printed numbers
Removing pages is the edit you reach for when a document has something in it that should not go out: the blank page a duplex scanner added, the cover sheet from the fax, the appendix with someone else's details on it. The pages you name are taken out and the remaining ones close up, so page nine becomes page eight if page three was removed.
The page numbers are positions in the file, counting from one, exactly as your PDF reader's page counter shows them. They are not the numbers printed on the pages. In a document with a cover or a numbered preface, the printed page 1 might be the fifth page of the file. When in doubt, scroll to the page in a viewer and read the counter.
What breaks when a page disappears
The pages are genuinely gone from the output — not hidden, not marked deleted, not recoverable from the file. Keep the original if you might need them again; it is not modified. Anything that pointed at a removed page from elsewhere in the document, such as a table-of-contents link, now points at nothing or at the wrong page. The visible text of the contents page is unchanged; only the link behind it breaks.
The tool refuses to delete every page. A PDF with no pages is not a valid document, and you almost certainly meant something else.
Questions people ask
- Which numbers do I type — the printed ones or the position?
- The position in the file, starting at 1, which is what your PDF reader shows in its page counter. In a document with a cover and a preface, printed page 1 may sit at position 5 or later.
- Can I get a deleted page back?
- Not from the output — the page data is removed, not hidden. Your original file on your device is untouched, so keep it until you are sure.
- What happens to the table of contents?
- The text stays as it was, but links that pointed at deleted pages no longer lead anywhere useful, and the page numbers printed in the contents will be off by however many pages were removed before them.
- Does the file get smaller?
- Usually, in proportion to what the removed pages contained. A page with a large scanned image frees a lot; a page of plain text frees very little. Shared resources like fonts are kept if any remaining page uses them.
- Is my PDF uploaded?
- No. The pages are removed by your browser on this page. The file never leaves your device.