Delete PDF pages

Name the pages to remove and get the document back without them. The blank sheets a scanner inserted, a cover page, an internal note that should not have gone out — all of it goes, and none of it is uploaded on the way.

    • Where it runs

      A PDF is read in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.

    • No queue, no account

      It starts the moment you drop the file, and it never asks who you are.

    • No watermark

      What comes out is the file you made, with nothing added to it.

    How it works

    1. Drop the PDF onto the box above, or press it to choose one.
    2. Name the pages to remove: 2, 5, 9-11.
    3. Check the summary, which reads your selection back before anything is changed.
    4. Press Remove pages and download the result.

    Removed, not hidden

    The pages you name are absent from the file that comes out — copied out of existence rather than marked invisible. There is nothing left in the document to recover, which is the behaviour you want when the reason for removing a page is that it should not be seen.

    The usual caveat still applies and is worth repeating: this is not redaction. A page you keep keeps everything on it, including text hidden under a black rectangle and content cropped out of view. Removing a page removes a page.

    Why the numbering does not shift underneath you

    Deleting several pages by index is a classic way to remove the wrong ones: take out page 2, and every page after it moves up, so the next deletion lands one place off. Tools that get this wrong produce a document that looks plausible and is missing the wrong sheet.

    This one builds the result from the pages that stay rather than by removing the ones that go, so the numbers you typed mean what they meant when you typed them. And a selection that would remove every page is refused, because a PDF with no pages is not a document.

    Delete PDF pages: common questions

    Is my document uploaded?

    No. It is rewritten in your browser and never leaves your device — including the pages you are deleting, which is rather the point when the reason for deleting them is that they are sensitive.

    Can the removed pages be recovered from the result?

    No. The new document is built from the pages that stay, so what you removed was never written into it. It is not hidden, marked invisible or moved to the end.

    Does deleting page 2 shift the numbering for page 5?

    No, and that is a real trap in tools that delete pages one at a time. The numbers you type all refer to the document as it is now, because the result is built from what stays rather than by removing what goes.

    What if I select every page?

    It is refused. A PDF with no pages is not a document, so you get a message rather than an empty file.

    Does it re-render what is left?

    No. The surviving pages are copied, so text stays selectable, vectors stay sharp and images are unchanged.

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