Delete PDF Pages

Deleting pages removes whole pages from the document and keeps the rest in order. Select the pages you do not want — click them, shift-click for a range, or use Select all and Invert for the "keep almost everything" case — then remove them. The output count updates as you select, so you always see how many pages survive.

This is a structural operation: the pages you removed are gone from the new file, and everything else is copied unchanged. Text on the remaining pages stays selectable, and links that pointed within the kept pages keep working. Your original file is untouched on disk — the tool writes a new document, which is also your undo: if you delete the wrong page, start over from the original.

File size shrinks, but not always proportionally. PDFs share resources — a font used on page 2 and page 40 stays in the file if page 40 survives. The result card shows the actual size of the output, so you can see what the deletion bought you instead of guessing.

Deleting is instant and local: selection lives in the page, the new document is built in a background worker, and the download appears without a single outbound request — the security policy on this page blocks them, which you can confirm in the network panel mid-run. There is no trash bin and no server-side copy, which is the same statement twice: the only copies are the two files on your machine, old and new.

The tool refuses two broken outcomes rather than producing them: deleting every page stops with a message instead of writing an empty PDF, and an encrypted or unreadable file is rejected before the grid appears, because deleting pages from a document you cannot safely read is how corrupted outputs happen. For removing text rather than pages — one clause out of a contract — the page-level tool is the wrong instrument; that is the Android app's text editing.

Scanned batches bring the standard mess: the feeder grabbed two blank pages, page 14 is the fax cover nobody needs, and the last page is the scanning instructions of the machine itself. Click the blanks, click 14, click the last page — the footer already says 21 pages kept — and download. The new file starts where the content starts and ends where it ends, which is the entire point of the exercise. The result card shows the new size next to the old, so the cleanup is measurable rather than assumed.