Delete pages from PDF
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When the document is mostly right but has pages that shouldn't be there

The reasons people remove specific pages are usually small and specific. A scanner picked up a blank back side of a sheet — now the document has half a dozen empty pages mixed in. A contract you got from someone has a cover sheet with their internal notes that doesn't need to travel further. A free business report has three pages of ads at the front before the actual content starts. A bank statement covers six months but you only want to send three to a counterparty. A scan accidentally captured the same page twice and the duplicate is sitting at page 14. The right tool isn't to start over — it's to remove just those pages and keep everything else.

What you get is a new PDF that's the same as the original minus the pages you specified. Same content on the kept pages, same order, same everything else.

How the page list is described

You type pages in the form 1,3,5-7. That means: page 1, page 3, and pages 5 through 7 (inclusive). Single numbers and ranges can mix freely. Spacing doesn't matter — 1, 3, 5-7 works the same as 1,3,5-7. Numbers are 1-based, the way you'd talk about pages naturally.

A few rules:

• Each page must be in the document's range. If you have a 12-page PDF and type 15, you'll see "Invalid page: 15".
• Ranges must go forward. 5-7 works; 7-5 doesn't.
• Duplicates are merged silently. 1,1,2-3,3 just removes pages 1, 2, and 3.
• You can't remove every page. The tool stops if your list would empty the document — at least one page has to remain. To get a single page out, use split-pdf in select mode.

What happens to the pages you keep

Because this tool removes pages from the existing document (rather than copying kept pages into a new one), most things on the kept pages survive cleanly:

• Page content — text, images, fonts, layout. Identical to before.
• Annotations on kept pages. Highlights, sticky notes, and link annotations stay where they were.
• Filled-in form fields. Stay filled.
• Document metadata. Title, author, creation date all carry through.

A few things still need a heads-up:

• Bookmarks pointing into removed pages break or disappear. If a section's bookmark referenced page 7 and you removed page 7, that bookmark is no longer valid. Whether it's silently dropped or left as a broken reference depends on the original PDF; in practice, viewers handle missing destinations gracefully.
• Internal cross-page links may now point to the wrong place. A "see page 12" link was wired to a specific page index. Removing earlier pages shifts what page 12 means. The link still resolves — just possibly to a different page than originally intended.
• Page numbers in headers/footers don't renumber. If page 8 said "Page 8 of 20" in its footer, and you removed pages 1–3, the kept page (now page 5 in the file) still says "Page 8 of 20" in its content. The text is part of the page, not a live counter.
• Digital signatures are invalidated. Any rebuild of the PDF breaks the signature binding. If the file is signed, decide what's more important — the signature or removing pages — before doing it.

Adjacent tools when delete isn't quite right

• To extract a slice and discard the rest, split-pdf in range mode is more direct than listing dozens of pages to remove.
• To rearrange page order without removing anything, organize-pdf is the right tool.
• To pick pages visually from thumbnails rather than typing numbers, open the file in edit-pdf and use the page panel.
• To combine multiple PDFs after trimming each one, this tool first, then merge-pdf.

If something looks off

• "Invalid page: X" — the number is outside 1..N. Most often a typo (e.g. 23 when the document has 12 pages).
• "Invalid range: 7-5" — ranges must go from smaller to larger.
• "Cannot delete all pages" — your list would empty the document. Remove a page from the list, or use split-pdf to extract just the page you want.
• The PDF is encrypted. Run it through unlock-pdf first; encrypted PDFs can't be opened for page deletion.

Practical notes

1. Output filename. A file called contract.pdf downloads as contract_pages_removed.pdf. The original on your disk stays untouched.
2. Empty back pages from a scan are the most common reason people use this tool. If your scan has a recurring pattern (every other page is blank), listing the even or odd numbers works: 2,4,6,8,10,12.
3. For very large PDFs (hundreds of MB), deletion is a quick operation — the kept pages aren't re-encoded, just re-stitched into a new document. Memory is the cap, not CPU.

What happens to your file

The deletion runs in your browser. The original PDF stays on your disk; the trimmed version is a new download alongside it. Open DevTools and watch the Network tab during the operation — there are no outbound requests carrying the file content.