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Type the numbers of the pages you want gone, press Delete pages and save the new file. Your browser builds that copy on your device, so the document is never uploaded and the original is never changed.
The usual candidates are the empty backs of sheets that a duplex scanner captured, a fax cover sheet at the front, or a page of internal notes that should not reach a client.
How to cut pages out of a PDF
- Drag the PDF into the drop zone.
- Type the pages to remove, for example
3,9-11. - Press Delete pages.
- Save the new PDF.
Writing the page list
Separate single pages with commas and join the two ends of a range with a hyphen. So 3,9-11 takes out page 3 plus pages 9, 10 and 11. A duplex scan of five sheets with blank backs needs 2,4,6,8,10. Leave a range open to run it to the last page: 15- removes page 15 and everything after it.
The numbers refer to where a page sits in the file, counting from 1. Whatever is printed in the footer does not matter here, so a report whose first page is labeled iv still starts at 1.
Sometimes the list of pages to keep is the shorter one. Split PDF works the other way around: you give it a range of pages to keep, which saves typing.
What the new file keeps
Every page you keep is copied exactly as it was. You can still select the text, the pictures lose no resolution, and no page goes through compression again.
Two things can break. A link that jumped to a removed page no longer leads anywhere, and bookmarks may be lost. The file does not always shrink much either, since any font or image used by a kept page must remain in it.
Clearing pages from a stack of PDFs
Several PDFs can go in at once, and a whole folder is fine. In the browser there is no batch cap, no daily allowance and no account to open. Files up to 50 MB are free, and Pro takes files up to 500 MB. Speed depends on your device, and the files stay on it throughout. Save the results one by one or as a single ZIP.
Some clean-ups repeat, such as stripping the separator sheet from every file a scanner produces. For those, a pipeline removes the same pages from every file in the set and can pass the results on to further steps. Pipelines are free to try on up to 3 files and run on up to 500 with Pro.
FAQ
What if the wrong page got deleted?
Go back to your original. This tool never edits it, so every page is still there, and you can run the deletion again with a corrected list.
Can someone recover removed pages from the new file?
No. Your browser assembles the new PDF from the kept pages alone, so the removed ones are not tucked away inside it.
Is it possible to remove every page?
No. The tool will not do that, because the result would be a file with no pages. To keep just one page, list all the others.
Do scanned PDFs work?
Yes. Each scanned page is a picture within the PDF, so it goes the same way as any other page.