You do not need paid software or an upload site to delete pages from a PDF. This guide walks through it with the free Delete Pages from PDF tool, which runs in your browser, and covers the cases where deleting a page is not enough.
Step by step
- Open the Delete Pages from PDF tool and drop in your file. The page count is shown.
- Look through the PDF in your usual reader and note the numbers of the pages you want gone.
- Type them in the box. Separate single pages with commas and write ranges with a hyphen: 2,4-5 removes pages 2, 4 and 5.
- Click Delete & download. A new file with “-edited” in its name is saved, and your original is not changed.
Check the result before you share it
Open the new file and confirm the page count is what you expect. If the document has a table of contents or printed page numbers, they still describe the old layout, because the tool removes pages and does not rewrite the pages that remain.
Safe and private
Removing pages happens entirely in your browser, so the original file and the pages you delete never leave your device.
Deletion vs redaction
Deleting a page removes the whole page, which is right for blank pages, duplicates and sections your reader should not see. Redaction is different: it removes content inside a page you are keeping. If you only cover text with a black box, the text underneath can often still be copied out. For a few sensitive lines on a page you need to keep, use a proper redaction tool; for a whole sensitive page, delete it.
What happens to the removed pages
The tool builds a new PDF that contains only the pages you kept. The removed pages are not hidden inside the new file; they are simply not copied across. Your original still has them, so share the new file, not the original.
Removing blank pages from a scan
Scanners and double-sided printing often add blank pages: the empty back of a single-sided sheet, or a separator between documents. Before you delete a page that looks blank, zoom in on it. A faint stamp, a signature or a handwritten note is easy to miss at normal size.
- After removal, check the total page count against what the reader expects.
- Keep the original until you have opened the new file once.
Frequently asked questions
Open the Delete Pages from PDF tool, drop in your document, enter the page numbers or ranges to remove (for example 2,4-5), and download the rebuilt PDF. It is free with no upload.
Yes. Combine commas and ranges, like 1,3,6-8, to delete several pages in one go while keeping everything else intact.
No. The pages you keep are copied into a new PDF untouched, so quality, text, and formatting are preserved.
