Delete PDF Pages
Remove specific pages from a PDF and download what is left. Everything happens locally.
Processed on your device — no upload
How to delete PDF pages
- Choose the PDF you want to trim.
- Type the pages to remove, for example 1, 4-6, 9.
- Press delete. A new PDF containing everything else downloads to your device.
How it works
Rather than deleting pages out of your document, this tool does the opposite: it works out which pages you want to keep, creates an empty PDF, and copies those pages into it. The result is the same, but the method avoids a classic bug.
If you remove pages one at a time from a live document, every removal shifts the numbering of everything after it. Delete page 3, and the old page 4 becomes the new page 3 — so deleting “3 and 4” naively removes pages 3 and 5. Building a new document from a keep-list sidesteps that entirely, which is why a selection like 2, 3, 4 removes exactly those three pages and nothing else.
The tool also refuses to produce an empty file. If your selection would delete every page, it stops and tells you, instead of handing you a zero-page PDF that most readers cannot open.
Your original file is never modified. It is only read. And it is never transmitted: there is no server behind this page, so the parsing, copying and saving all happen on your own processor inside the browser tab.
A worked example
You have report-final.pdf, 24 pages. Before circulating it you want to strip out the cover sheet (page 1), the internal budget appendix (pages 18–20) and a blank page the printer inserted (page 24).
Choose the file — the status line confirms pages: 24 — and type 1, 18-20, 24.
Press Delete pages and download. You get report-final-trimmed.pdf and the message Removed 5 pages. 19 left. The remaining pages keep their original order and content; only the numbering shifts, so the old page 2 is now page 1.
One caution worth stating plainly: removing a page removes its visible content, but a PDF can also carry metadata, attachments or earlier revisions elsewhere in the file. For ordinary documents this tool gives you a clean result. For genuinely sensitive redaction — where the consequence of a leak is serious — treat page deletion as a first step, not as a guarantee.
If you find you want the removed pages as their own document instead, extracting them is the inverse operation.
Questions
How do I erase pages from a PDF?
Click the ones you want gone and press Delete. The document is rebuilt from the pages you kept, so nothing you drop is left behind inside the file.
Does this change my original file?
No. The tool reads your file and builds a new document from the pages you kept. The file on your disk is never written to, so if you make a mistake you can simply run it again.
How do I write the page selection?
Use commas for individual pages and hyphens for ranges: 1, 4-6, 9. Numbering starts at 1 and matches what your PDF reader shows. Spaces are ignored and duplicates are harmless.
Do the page numbers shift while I am selecting?
No, and this is the main thing that goes wrong in other tools. Your selection always refers to the original numbering, so 3, 4 removes the third and fourth pages of the document you opened.
Is the file uploaded anywhere?
No. This site is static and has no backend. The deletion runs in your browser on your own device, and the document is never transmitted. You can verify it in the Network tab of your developer tools.
Is deleting a page the same as redacting it?
Not quite. The page and its content are genuinely gone from the new document, which is enough for everyday purposes. But PDFs can hold metadata and attachments outside the page tree, so for high-stakes redaction you should also strip metadata and have the result reviewed.
What if I select every page?
The tool stops and asks you to keep at least one page, rather than producing an empty PDF that most readers would refuse to open.
Will bookmarks and links still work?
Page content is preserved exactly, but document-level structures such as bookmarks and internal links point at specific pages and generally do not survive being rebuilt into a new document.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Tap the file area to open your phone picker and the trimmed file saves through the normal download flow. Very large documents are limited mainly by available memory.
Is this how I remove PDF pages?
Yes — delete PDF pages and remove PDF pages are the same request. Give the page numbers you do not want and everything else is written out in order, unchanged.