Delete PDF pages online

How to delete pages from a PDF

1. Choose a PDF file.
2. Check the total page count shown after the file loads.
3. Enter the page numbers or ranges to delete, like 2,4-6.
4. Click Delete pages.
5. Check the resulting page count and preview before downloading to confirm the right pages were removed.

At least one page must remain; a range that would delete every page in the document is rejected with a clear error rather than producing an empty file.

What this does and how it works

This tool reads your source PDF, figures out which page numbers you listed for deletion, and removes exactly those pages from the document, keeping every other page in its original order. Internally, pages are removed from highest page number to lowest, which avoids the common off-by-one bug where deleting an earlier page shifts the position of every page after it before the next deletion is applied.

Best practices

• Confirm the page count first. The tool shows the total page count after you choose a file; use it to sanity-check that your page numbers are within range before deleting.
• Double-check ranges before submitting, since deletion happens immediately when you click the button and there's no in-tool undo (though your original file is untouched, so you can simply start over).
• Preview the result using the inline PDF preview before downloading, to confirm the correct pages were removed.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Miscounting pages in a document with unlabeled front matter (a cover page or blank page before the numbered content) — the page number you enter refers to position in the file, not any printed page number visible on the page itself.
• Trying to delete every page, which is rejected since a zero-page PDF isn't a valid result; if you want to keep only a couple of pages, use extract PDF pages instead of deleting almost everything.
• Deleting pages one at a time in separate runs when a single range would do; entering "2,4-6" once is simpler and less error-prone than four separate one-page deletions.

Real-world use cases

• Removing a blank or duplicate page left over from scanning.
• Deleting an outdated cover page or section before resending a document.
• Removing pages with sensitive information that shouldn't be included in a shared copy (always double-check the result carefully for this use case, since accuracy matters).
• Trimming a long report down to just the sections a recipient needs, when it's easier to say what to remove than what to keep.

Supported formats

Input: a single standard, non-encrypted PDF file. Output: the same PDF with the specified pages removed and remaining pages renumbered continuously. If most of the document is unwanted and only a few pages should survive, extract PDF pages is often faster than listing everything to delete.

Worked example: removing 2 blank pages from an 8-page scan

An 8-page scanned document has blank pages at positions 3 and 7 (left blank intentionally by the scanner between sections). Entering "3,7" removes both, leaving a 6-page document with the remaining pages renumbered 1 through 6 in their original relative order.

Limitations

This tool cannot open password-protected or encrypted PDFs. It requires at least one page to remain; a request to delete every page is rejected. Deletion is based on page position, not page content, so it cannot automatically detect "which pages are blank" or "which pages contain a signature" on its own — you choose the page numbers.

Deleting pages vs. redacting content

Deleting a page removes the entire page from the document; it is not the same as redacting or blacking out part of a page's content while keeping the rest of that page. If a page has both content you need to keep and a section you need to remove, deleting the whole page is the wrong tool — you would need to edit that page's content directly in a PDF editor, or recreate that page from its original source with the sensitive part left out, before combining it back with the rest of the document using merge PDF. This tool works at the whole-page level only, which is by far the more common need (removing a blank, duplicate, or entirely unwanted page).

Privacy

Your PDF is read and edited locally in your browser using the pdf-lib JavaScript library loaded from this site. Files are not uploaded to a server. See the privacy policy for full detail.

Troubleshooting

• If you get an error about deleting every page, reduce your range so at least one page remains, or reconsider whether extract is a better fit.
• If the wrong pages were removed, recheck the page count and numbering against the original file; remember numbering is positional, not any printed page label.
• If you need to keep only a small subset instead, try extract PDF pages.

Conclusion

Use this tool to remove specific pages from a PDF while keeping everything else intact and in order. To keep only certain pages instead of removing a few, use extract PDF pages; to change page order rather than remove pages, use reorder PDF pages.