Delete pages from PDF
In your browser, no upload
pages removed · not re-encoded
Specification
6 rows| Item | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Read from the file itself, not its name | |
| Output | One PDF | The pages you kept, in their original order |
| Pages to remove | Written as 2, 5-7 | Numbers and ranges, in any order; at least one page has to stay |
| Page content | Untouched | Copied as stored — nothing is decoded or drawn again |
| File size | Whatever this device holds | The file is read in this tab; it is never sent anywhere |
| Processed in | This browser | Not sent to a server |
What happens
4What happens, and why
Drop a PDF, type the pages you want gone — “2, 5-7” — and the rest comes back as one document in its original order. The tool says how many pages the file has, so the numbers you type are the numbers you see in a reader.
The pages that stay are copied: their drawing instructions, fonts and images are the bytes that were in the file you dropped, and nothing in them is decoded or drawn again. The badge says the file was not re-encoded because that is what happened to them.
The pages you removed are really not in the result. That is worth saying because it is not what every tool does — a PDF writer keeps every object it is holding whether the document still points at it or not, so removing a page from the page list can leave the page’s text sitting in the file for anyone who looks. This page builds the new document from the pages that stay, so only what they need is carried over. It is still not redaction: a page that stays keeps everything on it, including text hidden under a black box.
What a new document cannot bring along is the old one’s bookmarks, which are a tree of links into the file they came from. Everything drawn on a page — links, annotations, form boxes — is part of that page and stays with it. The file is read and written in this tab and is not sent anywhere.
FAQ
5Does it lower the quality
No, and it cannot: nothing in the pages is decoded. A page in a PDF is a list of drawing instructions plus the fonts and images it uses, and all of that is carried over exactly as it was stored, compression and all. A scan stays the scan it was, at the size it was.
How do I write the page numbers
Numbers and ranges separated by commas: “3” removes one page, “2, 5-7” removes four. The numbers are the ones a reader shows, starting at 1. A number the file does not have is refused rather than ignored, so a typo does not quietly remove the wrong page.
Can I keep only a few pages instead
Remove the others — a range is one entry, so keeping pages 10 to 12 of a 20-page file is “1-9, 13-20”. The result is one document with the pages in their original order.
Does the file get smaller
Usually, by roughly what those pages held. Not always by as much as you might expect: a font or an image that the removed pages shared with the pages that stay is still needed, so it is carried over.
Is the PDF uploaded
No. The browser reads the file from your disk and writes the new one on this page. There is no upload endpoint on this site, so there is nowhere for the file to go. Nothing about the document is logged either — this page does not know how many pages your file has.