Delete PDF Pages: Choosing What to Keep, Not What to Cut
Blank pages, cover sheets, an internal appendix that should not go out — all reasons to drop pages before sharing. This tool builds a new PDF from the ones you keep, and a few things do not survive that journey.
Scans pick up blank versos, reports carry cover sheets you do not need, and documents often contain a section meant only for internal readers. Removing them blind is easy to get wrong by one page.
This tool renders a thumbnail of every page so you can see what you are removing. Pick the ones to drop and it produces a new file containing the rest.
It rebuilds rather than deletes
Nothing is cut out of your original. A blank PDF is created and the pages you chose to keep are copied into it. The result looks the same, but the distinction matters.
What gets copied is page content. Anything attached to the document as a whole does not come along: the bookmark outline, fillable form fields, and digital signatures. Signatures are the certain case — a signature attests that the file has not changed, so removing any page invalidates it by definition.
Drop a page from a signed contract and you have a document with no valid signature. Keep the original somewhere safe.
The file may not shrink as much as you expect
Removing five pages from a ten-page document feels like it should halve the size. It often does not.
Fonts and repeated images are stored once inside a PDF and shared by every page that uses them. If the pages you kept still use that font, the font stays exactly where it was.
Conversely, if a large photograph lived only on a page you removed, the saving is dramatic. It comes down to what was unique to the pages that left.
Common uses
- •Removing blank reverse sides left by a duplex scan.
- •Dropping cover or instruction pages before submitting a document.
- •Producing an external version without the internal appendix.
- •Separating several documents that were scanned into one file.
- •Keeping only the pages you actually need to print.
Extended FAQ
Does this modify my original file?
No. A new file is produced and the original is untouched. Check the result before you tidy anything up.
My bookmarks and outline are gone.
Only page content is copied across. Bookmarks, form fields and digital signatures are properties of the document as a whole and do not transfer.
Can I remove a page from a signed document?
Technically yes, but the signature becomes invalid. A signature exists to certify that the file has not been altered, and removing a page alters it. Do not do this to anything that needs to hold up legally.
I removed pages and the size barely changed.
Shared resources such as fonts are still needed by the remaining pages. If size is your goal, the PDF compression tool is the better fit.
Is my file uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser, so the document never leaves your device.