Organize PDF · guide
What Delete PDF pages does
Delete PDF pages removes the pages you do not want and saves the rest as a new PDF. Tick pages in the thumbnail grid or type them, such as 1-3, 7; ticked pages stay visible, struck through, until you save, so you can check before anything goes. The pages you keep are copied without re-encoding, in their original order, and the file never leaves your browser.
How to delete PDF pages in your browser
- Choose one PDF Select the PDF you want to trim. Every page appears as a thumbnail in this tab; nothing is uploaded.
- Mark the pages to remove Tick each page you want to remove, or type pages such as 1-3, 7. Invert swaps every tick, which helps when you only want to keep a few pages, and clicking a page shows it full size.
- Delete and save Select Delete pages, check the page count in the result, then save the new PDF. The original file still has every page.
Worked example
Remove a blank separator from a scanned packet.
- Starting point
- Choose a four-page PDF whose third page is blank.
- What to do
- Mark page 3 for deletion and review its removed state in the grid. Leave the three wanted pages unmarked.
- Result
- Expect a three-page PDF, with original page 4 following original page 2.
If the result is not right
If all pages are marked and the tool cannot proceed, unmark a page. If the blank page contains a faint stamp, inspect it at a larger preview size first.
Limits worth knowing
- Keep at least one page. Deleting a page is not secure removal of repeated information that may also appear on other pages. Bookmarks to the pages you keep stay and open the whole page; a bookmark with nothing left to open is dropped. Links inside the pages that jump to another page of the file may no longer land on the right page, even a kept one, so click through them in the saved copy.
- This workflow stops on interactive forms rather than risk losing their fields. Use Flatten first and check every visible answer in that saved copy, then open the flattened PDF here. Keep the editable original; protected or XFA forms may need a compatible form application first.
Questions and answers
If I delete a page, do the page numbers on the rest update?
The viewer's numbers do; numbers printed on the pages do not. The remaining pages move up and the PDF's own page count follows, so delete page 4 and the old page 5 becomes page 4 in any viewer, but a 5 printed on that page is ordinary page content and still reads 5. If the original showed its front pages as i, ii, iii in the viewer, the new file shows plain 1, 2, 3. To fix the printed numbers, the cleanest way is to delete the page in the file the PDF came from, such as the Word document or the copy you saved before numbering, and make the PDF again. If you only have this PDF, open the saved copy in Edit PDF and cover each old number with Whiteout, one page at a time: it is a white box with a thin grey outline that hides the number but leaves it selectable and searchable. Then number the copy with Add page numbers to PDF, or with Add header, footer or Bates numbers for Page 3 of 12. Neither numbering tool removes what is already printed, so cover the old numbers first.
Can it find and remove blank pages for me?
Not in this tool: you pick the pages, and the thumbnail grid makes blank ones easy to spot. Split PDF by size or bookmark has an At blank pages method that finds near-empty pages by itself, but it treats them as separators, splitting the document at each one and leaving the blanks out of the pieces.
I ticked the wrong page. How do I get it back?
Tick it again: marked pages stay in the grid, struck through, and nothing is saved until you select Delete pages. Undo, or Ctrl+Z with a page focused, steps back through your changes one at a time.
How do I keep only a few pages and delete everything else?
Tick the pages you want to keep, then press Invert, which moves every tick onto the other pages and leaves your picks as the only ones unmarked. If keeping a few is the whole job, Extract PDF pages does the same thing the other way round.
Are the deleted pages really gone from the new file?
They are gone from the page list every viewer shows, but not always from the file itself. If a page you kept links to a deleted one, or the pages share images and other resources, parts of the deleted page can still be copied into the new file, where no viewer shows them and a viewer search will not find them. If a page must not reach the recipient, make a new PDF from the source document without it.
Why does the new file have the same name as my original?
It is named after the file you opened. Saving it creates a separate file, and browsers normally add a number rather than replace a file of the same name, so your original keeps every page. To tell the two apart at a glance, use Rename before saving, for example adding -trimmed.