AnyFormat

00 Utility

Delete PDF pages

Take pages out and keep everything else exactly as it was.

Drop files or a folder here

or choose from your device · paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

.pdf

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A number like 4, a range like 2-6, a list like 1,3,8, or an open end like 10-.

Used to unlock the file in this tab. It is never transmitted.

  • No upload The conversion runs in this tab. Your file never travels — not to us, and not to the advertising.
  • No sign-up, no email, no daily cap There is no account system to sign up to.
  • No size limit we invented Only your device's memory — about ~2 GB on a desktop browser, ~400 MB on a phone.
  • Turn your Wi-Fi off and convert anyway The conversion needs nothing but this page. Ads will not load without a connection; your file will still convert. That is the whole claim, and it takes five seconds to check.

Removes pages from a PDF and leaves the rest exactly as they were. Useful for stripping a cover sheet, a blank page from a scan, or a section you should not be forwarding.

Removing rather than hiding

The pages are taken out of the document's page tree. They are gone: not blanked, not covered, not marked hidden.

That distinction matters when the reason for deleting is that a page should not be seen. Redaction tools that draw a black rectangle over text leave the text underneath, where anyone can select it. Deleting a page removes it.

Note that this removes whole pages, not parts of them. If a paragraph on an otherwise necessary page is the problem, deleting the page is not the answer and neither is drawing a box over it.

Nothing is re-encoded

Every page is copied as the object it already was. Text stays as text, images keep their original compression, vector artwork stays vector.

This matters because the obvious way to build these tools — render each page to an image and make a new PDF out of the pictures — is much easier and produces a visibly worse file: fuzzy text, no selection, no search, and often ten times the size. Nothing here does that.

The result is that a page which has been through this tool is byte-for-byte as good as it was in the file you started with.

What travels with a page, and what does not

A PDF page carries its own contents — text, fonts, images, vector drawing. All of that moves intact.

Some things belong to the document rather than to any page. Form fields, the outline (bookmarks) sidebar, document-level JavaScript and attachments live at that level, and rebuilding a document from pages does not bring them along. Where the source has any of them, this is said explicitly in the result rather than discovered later.

Annotations — links, comments, highlights — travel with the page they sit on. A link that pointed at a page you removed will still be there, but it will no longer lead anywhere.

What happens to the file size

Usually it shrinks, but rarely by the fraction of pages you removed. A PDF stores fonts, images and other resources once and refers to them from wherever they are used, so removing three pages that shared a font with the remaining forty frees very little.

Removing three pages that each held a large photograph frees a great deal. The result is reported per file rather than promised in advance.

Other names for this

Also searched as “remove pages from pdf”, “delete pages pdf”, “pdf page remover”.

Questions

Are my files uploaded?
No. The work happens in this tab. Turn your Wi-Fi off before you start and it still works — which is the only demonstration worth anything.
Is the deleted content really gone?
The page is removed from the document. Anything that only that page referenced becomes unreferenced. This is a real deletion, not a black rectangle drawn over the text — but it removes whole pages only.
Can I delete all but a few pages?
Easier the other way round: use Split PDF in “one file containing the selected pages” mode and name the pages you want to keep.
Why is the file barely smaller?
Because fonts and images are stored once and shared. Removing pages that shared their resources with the rest of the document frees very little.
Is there a limit on how many files or pages?
Only your device’s memory. There is no server here to run out of capacity, no queue to join and no daily count, because there is nothing on our side that any of those would be protecting.