How to Remove Pages from a PDF (Free, No Upload)

What removing pages means

Removing pages from a PDF produces a new document that contains every page from the original except the ones you specified. It is the inverse of extracting: instead of naming the pages you want, you name the pages you do not want, and everything else is kept.

The original file is never modified. The tool reads it, copies all pages that were not marked for removal into a new PDF, and offers the new file for download. You can always go back to the original if you change your mind.

When to use remove instead of extract

Both tools get you to a subset of pages, but they approach it from opposite directions:

• Remove is faster when you want to discard a small number of pages. If you have a 50-page document and need to delete only the cover page and the last two pages, typing 1, 49-50 into the remove tool is faster than typing 2-48 into the extract tool.
• Extract is faster when you want to keep a small number of pages. If you need only pages 12 and 13 from a 100-page document, typing 12-13 into the extract tool is faster than listing every other page in the remove tool.

Use whichever requires less typing. The output is the same either way — a valid PDF with only the pages you wanted.

How the page range works

The Remove PDF Pages tool uses the same range syntax as the extract tool. You type page numbers and ranges into a text field:

• Single pages: 5 removes page 5.
• Ranges: 1-3 removes pages 1, 2, and 3.
• Comma-separated combinations: 1, 5, 10-15 removes page 1, page 5, and pages 10 through 15.
• Duplicates are ignored: entering 3, 3, 7 removes pages 3 and 7 — page 3 is not counted twice.
• Input order does not matter: 10, 2, 5 removes pages 2, 5, and 10 regardless of the order you typed them.

Page numbers start at 1. If you enter a number greater than the total page count, the tool will tell you and display how many pages the document has.

One constraint: you cannot remove every page. At least one page must remain in the output. If your range covers the entire document, the tool shows an error and does not produce a file.

Step-by-step: remove pages from a PDF

1. Open the Remove PDF Pages tool.

2. Drop a PDF file onto the upload area, click to browse, or paste from your clipboard. The tool accepts one PDF at a time, up to 100 MB.

3. The tool displays the file name and size after reading the document.

4. Enter the pages you want to delete in the Page range field. Use single numbers, ranges, or a comma-separated mix.

5. Click Remove pages. The tool builds a new PDF containing only the pages you did not remove. All processing happens in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a server.

6. Review the result. The results panel shows the original page count, how many pages were removed, how many were kept, and the output file size.

7. Click Download to save the trimmed PDF. The file is named with a -trimmed suffix to distinguish it from the original.

Common use cases

Removing cover pages

Many PDFs exported from design tools or document management systems include a cover page that you do not need when sharing or printing. Removing page 1 gives you a clean document that starts with the actual content.

Deleting blank pages

Scanned documents often produce blank pages — the scanner captures both sides of a single-sided sheet, leaving every other page empty. If your 20-page scan has blank pages at positions 2, 4, 6, 8, and so on, enter those numbers in the range field to strip them all at once.

Stripping appendices or attachments

A report includes a 15-page appendix you do not need for your purposes. If the appendix starts at page 40 in a 54-page document, enter 40-54 to remove it and keep only the main body.

Redacting sections by page

When you need to share a document but certain pages contain information the recipient should not see, removing those pages is a blunt but effective approach. This is not fine-grained redaction — it removes entire pages, not individual words or paragraphs — but it works when the sensitive content is confined to specific pages.

Cleaning up merged documents

After joining multiple PDFs with a merge tool, you may find duplicate pages or unwanted separators in the combined file. Rather than re-merging from scratch, you can remove the offending pages from the output.

What the output contains

The resulting PDF preserves the content of every page that was not removed: text, images, layout, and formatting. Page numbers in the output are renumbered sequentially — if you remove page 2 from a 10-page document, the output is a 9-page PDF where the former page 3 is now page 2.

Internal links that pointed to a removed page may no longer resolve. Document-level bookmarks referencing removed pages are not automatically cleaned up. If the original PDF relies heavily on internal navigation, check the output to confirm it still works as expected.

Browser limits

The tool processes your PDF entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device, which means no server sees your document — but it also means processing is constrained by your browser's available memory.

The maximum accepted file size is 100 MB. Desktop browsers typically handle documents with several hundred pages without trouble. Mobile browsers are more constrained and may struggle with large files. If the tab becomes unresponsive, try using a desktop browser or removing pages from a smaller portion of the document at a time.

Free-tier usage limits apply. See the pricing page for current thresholds.

Related guides

• How to Compress a PDF — reduce file size with Preserve or Aggressive mode.
• How to Extract Pages from a PDF — pull specific pages into a new file.