Remove Pages from PDF
Pick the pages you want gone. Everything else is kept, exactly as it was.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
The pages are really gone
This matters enough to be explicit about. Some tools "delete" a page by marking it hidden, leaving the content sitting in the file for anyone who looks. That is not what happens here. A new document is built from the pages you kept, and the pages you removed are simply never copied into it — their text and images are not in the output in any form, recoverable or otherwise. If you are removing a page because it should not be seen, that is the behaviour you need.
Removing is extracting, inverted
Under the hood this is the same operation as extracting pages, run the other way around: you name what goes, and the tool keeps the complement. That is why the Invertbutton is worth knowing about — if it is easier to point at the handful of pages you want tokeep, select those and invert, rather than clicking the other forty.
Why the file does not shrink proportionally
Removing half the pages rarely halves the size. PDFs share resources between pages — a font is embedded once and used throughout, and a logo repeated on every page is stored once. Those are only dropped when nothing references them any more. Expect a reduction roughly in line with what you removed, but do not be surprised when a page-heavy, resource-light document barely moves.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded when I delete pages from it?
No. The document is read into your browser tab and the trimmed file is built there, on your own machine. Nothing is transmitted — which matters most here, because removing a page is usually about not sharing it.
Does this actually remove the content, or just hide the pages?
It genuinely removes them. A new document is built containing only the pages you kept, so the deleted pages and their content are not present in the output at all. This is not the same as a viewer that hides pages, and nothing can be recovered from the result.
How do I choose which pages to delete?
Click the thumbnails of the pages you want gone — they turn red — or type their numbers into the box, like 2, 5-7. The two stay in step, and the tool tells you how many pages will be left before you commit.
Can I get the original back if I make a mistake?
Not from the output, so keep your original file. The tool never modifies the file on your disk — it only produces a new one for download — so the original is safe unless you overwrite it yourself.
Does removing pages reduce quality or shrink the file much?
Quality is untouched: the pages you keep are copied across exactly as they were. Size usually drops roughly in proportion to what you removed, though not exactly, because resources shared between pages — fonts, repeated images — are only dropped once nothing references them.
What happens to bookmarks and forms?
Bookmarks are not carried into the new document. Form fields on the pages you keep come across, but any that referenced removed pages will no longer make sense. Page content, annotations and external links are preserved.