How to delete pages from a PDF
- Add the PDF you want to trim.
- Choose Remove these pages to delete the ones you name, or Keep only these to discard everything else.
- Type the pages, for example
1, 5-8. Single numbers and ranges can be mixed. - Press Save edited PDF, then Save on the result.
About this tool
Deleting pages from a PDF removes the parts you do not need — a blank sheet from a scan, an internal cover page, or the twelve pages of terms at the back of a document you only need the first three of. This free tool does it in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
There are two ways to say what you want, because which one is easier depends on the document. If you are dropping two stray pages from a forty-page file, name the pages to remove. If you only want pages 3 to 5 of that same file, it is far quicker to say what to keep. Both produce the same kind of result: a new PDF with the pages you wanted, in their original order.
The remaining pages are copied across untouched — same size, same orientation, same embedded fonts and images. Nothing is re-compressed, so there is no quality loss.
Your original file is never modified. The tool builds a new document and offers it to save, so if you get the range wrong you can simply try again.
The page thumbnails are what make that unlikely in the first place. Blank sheets from a scanner, duplicated pages and the run of boilerplate at the back are all obvious at a glance and awkward to identify by number alone. Click the ones you mean and the range fills in; hold Shift to take a run of consecutive pages in one go.
One deliberate refusal: the tool will not let you remove every page. An empty PDF is not a useful thing to download, and being told so is more helpful than opening a file that turns out to contain nothing. It will also tell you when none of the pages you named exist in the file, rather than silently handing back an unchanged copy.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I remove one page from a PDF?
- Choose "Remove these pages" and type that single page number, then save.
- Can I keep only a few pages instead?
- Yes. Switch to "Keep only these" and name the pages you want. Everything else is discarded.
- Is the original file changed?
- No. A new PDF is created and downloaded; the file on your disk is untouched.
- Does removing pages reduce quality?
- No. The kept pages are copied across as they are, with no re-encoding.
- Can I delete every page?
- No — a PDF needs at least one page, so the tool will tell you rather than produce an empty file.