Delete PDF pages
See every page, tap the ones you want gone, and download the document without them. Nothing is removed until you say so, and your file is never stored.
- Never stored
- No queue, no waiting
- No signup, no watermark
How it works
Add your PDF
Drop the PDF onto the page or click to pick it. Every page appears as a preview.
Mark what to remove
Tap each page you want gone — marked pages turn red. Tap again to keep one.
Download the result
Click Remove pages and the shortened PDF downloads immediately.
Deleting a page is not the same as removing it
Nothing is cut out of your document. A new one is assembled from the pages you kept, and those pages arrive byte for byte as they were — same content stream, same embedded fonts, same boxes and rotation — with their own annotations along for the ride. What does not arrive is everything that belonged to the document rather than to a page: the bookmark outline, page labels, file attachments, the tag structure a screen reader follows, and the title and author fields, which the result inherits from nothing.
If you are deleting a page to get rid of what is on it, read this part. A link on a page you kept that pointed at a page you deleted still has to point somewhere, and satisfying it drags a copy of that deleted page into the new file as an object the page tree never references. No reader will ever show it and it will not print, but the content is in the bytes and anyone who opens the file with a text editor can find it. Deletion is a document-structure operation, not a privacy one. When the point is that nobody should ever see those words again, redact them instead — that overwrites the content itself.
The size drop is rarely proportional to the page count, for the same reason a split file is bigger than you expect: pages share things. Drop thirty pages of a forty-page report and the font subsets, the letterhead and the logo were all shared, so they travel with whichever pages kept them and the file does not fall to a quarter of its size. One page must always remain — a PDF with no pages is not a valid PDF, so marking everything is refused rather than producing a file that will not open.
When you want something else
To take pages out and keep the outline, the tags and the document information, qpdf edits the document instead of rebuilding it: qpdf in.pdf --pages . 1-3,7-z -- out.pdf keeps everything except pages four to six, with the original as the primary document, so its catalogue survives. The 7-z syntax — page seven to the end — is also the easiest way to lop off a cover page from a script without knowing the page count.
To be certain a removed page leaves nothing behind, run the result through qpdf --empty --pages out.pdf 1-z -- clean.pdf, which writes a fresh file containing only what the page tree actually reaches, or rebuild it with gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o clean.pdf out.pdf. Both discard unreferenced objects. Both are free.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF stored when I delete pages?
No. The whole operation is private — your file is never stored, never logged and never seen by us.
Can I undo a page I marked by mistake?
Yes. Tap a marked page again to keep it, or use "Keep everything" to clear all your marks. Nothing changes in the file until you download.
Does deleting pages reduce the file size?
Usually yes, and often a lot if the removed pages carried images. Text and images on the remaining pages are copied at full quality — nothing is recompressed.
What happens to the page numbers printed on the pages?
Numbers printed into the original document stay as they were — they are part of the page artwork, so removing a page leaves a gap in the printed numbering.
Can I delete every page?
No — a PDF must keep at least one page, so the tool stops you and says so rather than producing a broken file.
Good to know: Links, bookmarks and form fields that pointed at deleted pages are dropped with them, and the outline may shift. If a document is heavily interactive, check the result before sending it on.
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