What does removing PDF pages do?
Removing pages from a PDF means rebuilding the document without the page objects you name. This tool takes a list of pages — a set of numbers, a range such as 5-7, or a whole pattern such as every even page — and writes a new PDF containing everything else. The page tree is the only thing that changes, so the pages that remain are byte-for-byte the pages you had, not re-rendered copies.
That distinction is the reason the result stays useful. Text keeps its selectable and searchable form, images are not decoded and re-encoded, and vector art stays mathematically sharp, because none of them are touched. The saved file is the original document with the deleted pages simply no longer listed in it, which is also why it shrinks by roughly the share those pages took up rather than by a fixed amount.
It is worth being clear about what deletion is not. It is not redaction in the archival sense: while the removed page's content is gone from the saved file, anything that merely covers a page — a black box drawn over a paragraph — leaves the paragraph in the file for anyone who extracts the text. Deleting is stronger than covering, and it is the right choice when the content itself should no longer exist.
Two things stay behind. Anything that referenced a deleted page — an internal link, an outline entry, a cross-reference in a form — now points at nothing, and viewers differ in how gracefully they cope. And a printed page number is part of the page's artwork, so if a document has numbers drawn on each page, the numbers that remain will not be renumbered; they still say what they said.
How to remove pages from a PDF
- Choose the PDF, up to 100 MB, and read the page count the tool reports.
- Type the pages to delete — 2, 5-7, 11 — or use a preset such as even pages, odd pages or the last page.
- Check the three figures: pages in the file, pages to remove, and the remaining set the tool will keep.
- Press Remove the pages to rebuild the document without them.
- Download the shorter PDF, or adjust the selection and run it again — the original is never modified.
Remove PDF Pages limits and rules
| Item | Limit |
|---|---|
| Input | One PDF, up to 100 MB |
| Pages | Named by number, by inclusive range (5-7), or by preset for even and odd patterns |
| Minimum | At least one page must be left, since a PDF cannot be saved with none |
| Preserved | Text, images, vectors, annotations and metadata on the remaining pages |
| Not preserved | Outline entries and internal links that pointed at a removed page |
| Not included | Redaction of content on a kept page, cropping, and any password removal |
| Numbering | Counted from 1 at the front of the file, as a viewer displays the pages |
When to use it
- Deleting scanned blank pages so a file is smaller and easier to read.
- Removing a coversheet or a signature page before sending a document on.
- Dropping every even page of a two-pages-per-sheet scan that was captured as separate pages.
- Clearing a page that was accidentally included from another document.
- Trimming an appendix before a file is uploaded to a portal.
Is it private?
The PDF is opened, rewritten and saved in this page. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged, and there is no queue — closing the tab discards both the original and the result.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The saved file is rebuilt without the page objects you named, so the text, images and links on them are not in the output and cannot be recovered from it. That is a different thing from drawing a black rectangle over the page, which leaves the underlying text intact and readable by anyone who copies it out. When content genuinely should not exist any more, removing the page is the operation that achieves it; when it merely should not be visible, a redaction tool that removes the text itself is the correct one.
Because the pages you removed were not necessarily the largest ones, and because a PDF keeps shared resources — fonts, colour profiles, images used on several pages — that stay as long as any remaining page still refers to them. Removing a text page saves very little, since text is compact, while removing a scanned page saves a lot. The change in size therefore tracks the content you removed, not the number of pages, which is why a four-page deletion can sometimes save less than a single scanned page.
It is left pointing at a page that no longer exists. The outline is a structure separate from the pages, and rebuilding the page tree does not rewrite it, so a viewer may show an outline entry that does nothing when clicked, or may quietly drop it. Interior links behave the same way. The pages themselves are unaffected — this only affects navigation that aimed at the removed page — and a document without an outline is completely untroubled by the whole question.
Not while the password is on it. An encrypted document has to be decrypted before its pages can be read or rewritten, and this tool does not take a password — it opens the file as it is, so an encrypted one fails to load and is reported plainly. Remove the password with whatever produced it, or with a tool that decrypts PDFs, and bring the unlocked file back. The reason for the rule is simple: handling a password in a browser page would mean holding a secret, and the point of the tool is that no secret ever arrives here.
No, this tool works on one document at a time, deliberately. A page list such as 5-7 means one thing against one file and something different against the next, so a batch operation would need a rule per file and would be easy to run against the wrong one. Working through files one at a time keeps the selection unambiguous, and because nothing is uploaded there is no cost to doing that beyond the clicks. Merging the files first, if they are really one document, is the other way round the problem.
Always. Pages keep their relative order, and a page's own rotation and scaling are untouched, so the document reads exactly as before with the chosen pages absent. The tool does not renumber, reflow or repaginate anything — it removes entries from the page tree and nothing else. If you also want the sequence itself changed, that is the reorder tool's job; and if you want to keep only a subset without discarding the original, extraction is the operation that leaves the source file as it was.
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Written and maintained by Md. Nur Hossain Repon.