Delete pages from a PDF

Load the file and the pages appear as previews. Click the ones you want gone; they highlight, and the count below the box updates. If you would rather type, the box takes page numbers and ranges in the usual form, 2, 5-7, 19, and the previews follow along.

Pressing delete does not edit your file. It builds a new PDF from the pages you kept, in their original order, and downloads that. Your original is still sitting on disk exactly as it was, so a wrong selection costs you nothing but a second go.

The tool will not let you delete every page. A PDF with no pages is not a valid PDF and most readers refuse to open one, so at least one page has to stay.

A deleted page is not copied into the new file, so its content does not travel with the document. That is genuine removal, and it is the right tool for dropping a cover sheet or a blank scan.

It is not redaction. If the thing you want hidden sits on a page you are keeping, deleting other pages does nothing for it, and drawing a black box over text in most editors leaves the text underneath, selectable by anyone who tries. Proper redaction removes the underlying content, and this page does not do that.

Expect the new file to be smaller, but not always by as much as you hoped. Fonts and images are shared between pages in a PDF, so dropping half the pages rarely halves the size.

How do I delete pages from a PDF?

Load the file and click the thumbnails of the pages you want gone, or type their numbers. The tool then saves a new PDF with everything except those pages, in the original order.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. The page opens your file with JavaScript running in your own browser, does the work there, and hands you the result as a download. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no server copy to delete and no queue to wait in. You can check this yourself: open your browser's network tab, run the tool, and you will see no request carrying your file.

Does this change my original file?

No. Your file on disk is never touched. The tool builds a new PDF in memory and downloads it, so if you get the selection wrong you still have the original.

Can I delete every page?

No, and the tool stops you. A PDF with no pages is not a valid PDF and most readers refuse to open it, so at least one page has to stay.

Is deleted content really gone from the file?

The pages are not copied into the new file, so their content does not travel with it. This is page removal, not redaction: if you need to hide something inside a page you are keeping, deleting pages will not do it.

The thumbnails are slow on my long document. Why?

Every thumbnail is a real render of that page, done by your own machine. Long documents therefore take longer, and a page heavy with images takes longer than a page of text. Past a few hundred pages the tool switches to numbered buttons instead, because rendering that many previews costs more than it helps.

Is this page remover free?

Yes, and there is no account, no email box and no watermark on the output. The tool is here because FORKSAI makes study software and this is a useful thing to give away.