Delete Pages from PDF Online

How to delete pages from a PDF

Almost every PDF you receive has pages you don't need: a blank cover sheet, a fax header, a duplicate scan, a terms-and-conditions appendix, or a page that simply went in by mistake. This tool lets you list those pages and download a trimmed copy in seconds — no software to install and nothing uploaded to a server.

How page deletion works

When you load a PDF, the tool reads its page count using pdf-lib. After you enter the pages to remove, it creates a fresh, empty PDF and copies over only the pages you chose to keep, in their original order. The pages you listed are simply never copied across. Because a brand-new document is assembled, the pages you keep retain their content, links, and form fields intact.

Writing the page list

The input accepts single pages and ranges separated by commas. For example, on a 12-page document, 1, 11-12drops the cover page and the last two pages, leaving you a clean 9-page file. The tool validates your input against the real page count and warns you if a number is out of bounds, so you can't accidentally reference a page that doesn't exist.

Common reasons to remove pages

• Stripping blank separator pages produced by a scanner's automatic document feeder.
• Removing a signature or cover page before sharing a document more widely.
• Cutting an internal appendix or pricing sheet from a proposal sent to a client.
• Deleting a mis-scanned or duplicated page without re-scanning the whole stack.

Your original is never overwritten

Two things protect you here. First, the trim happens entirely in the browser tab, so the file is never transmitted — useful when the very reason you are deleting a page is that it holds something you would rather not circulate. Second, deletion is non-destructive: the tool builds a new document and leaves the source file on your disk byte-for-byte unchanged, so a mistaken page list costs you nothing but a re-run.

Limitations to be aware of

Deleting a page that other pages link to (or that a bookmark points at) can leave those navigation targets dangling. The document outline is not automatically renumbered. If you need to keep a perfectly consistent set of internal links and bookmarks, review them after deletion, or consider splitting and re-merging instead.

Related PDF tools

• Split PDF — extract the pages you want into a separate file instead of removing them.
• Merge PDF — recombine documents after trimming each one.
• Rotate PDF — fix sideways pages from a scanner before or after deleting.
• Add Page Numbers — renumber the remaining pages cleanly.