How do I delete pages from a PDF online for free?

Choose a PDF and every page appears as a thumbnail. Click any page to mark it for removal — a tick appears and the card highlights — then press the download button. Nothing is uploaded, so confidential documents stay on your device throughout.

How do I remove all the blank backs of a double-sided scan?

That is exactly what the Select Even Pages button is for. Scanning a single-sided stack duplex puts a blank on every even page, so one click marks them all. Select Odd Pages does the reverse, and Clear Selection starts over if you mis-click.

Can I check a page before deleting it?

Yes. Each card has a small expand button that opens the page full screen, and once open you can move through the document with the left and right arrow keys, the on-screen arrows, or a slider. Escape closes it. Thumbnails are small, so this is worth using on dense text.

Can I type page numbers instead of clicking?

Not on this tool — selection here is visual, with even and odd shortcuts. If you would rather type something like 1-3, 5, 8-10, use the extract pages tool and select the pages you want to keep instead. It is the same job approached from the opposite direction.

Will deleting pages reduce the quality of the pages I keep?

No. The kept pages are copied as intact objects into a new document, so vector text stays selectable, embedded fonts survive and images are never recompressed. Nothing is rendered to a bitmap, which is what makes cheaper tools blur text and inflate the file.

Can I reorder the remaining pages at the same time?

No, this tool only removes — the surviving pages keep their original sequence. For moving pages around, or for doing removal and reordering and rotation together in one pass, use the organize PDF tool instead.

Are there any limits on which PDFs work?

Two. A single-page PDF is rejected, since there would be nothing left to keep, and you cannot delete every page — at least one has to remain. A password-protected file cannot be opened at all, and a permission-restricted file will save as an unencrypted copy.

Does removing pages make the file smaller?

Usually yes, roughly in proportion to what you dropped, because the content of removed pages is not carried into the new document. It is not exact, since shared resources such as fonts are kept once for the whole file rather than per page.

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Remove pages from a PDF online free — preview thumbnails, delete what you don't need and download the result. No upload — files never leave your device.

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Remove pages from a PDF by clicking the ones you do not want. Even and odd shortcuts handle blank scanner backs in one press, and a full-screen preview lets you check a page before dropping it. The pages you keep are copied intact, so text stays selectable. Runs entirely in your browser — no upload, no sign-up, no watermark.

How to delete pages

Choose a PDF. Thumbnails render for every page; the header tracks how many are marked and how many will remain.
Click the pages to remove. A tick marks each one. Click again to unmark.
Or use a shortcut — Select Even Pages, Select Odd Pages, or Clear Selection.
Download. The button counts what is going and what is staying, so there is no ambiguity before you commit.

Worth knowing about the preview: each card has a small expand button that opens the page full screen, with arrow-key navigation, on-screen arrows and a slider to move through the document, and Escape to close. Thumbnails are deliberately small for grid density, so use the preview on anything text-heavyrather than guessing which page is the disclaimer.

Even and odd, and why they matter more than they sound

These two buttons exist for one very common accident. Feed a stack of single-sided paper through a duplex scanner and you get a PDF where every even page is blank — the back of each sheet. A hundred-page scan becomes two hundred pages, half of them empty.

Select Even Pages marks all of them in one press. The numbering follows the page numbers you can see, so "even" means pages 2, 4, 6 and so on, not a zero-based index. Select Odd Pages is the mirror image, useful when a scanner has put the blanks first.

Kept pages are copied, not re-rendered

What survives removal, depending on how the tool works.
	Object copying (this tool)	Render-to-image tools
Text stays selectable	Yes	No — becomes a picture
Searchable	Yes	No
Embedded fonts	Preserved	Discarded
Images recompressed	No	Yes
Resulting file size	Falls with pages removed	Often grows
Screen-reader accessibility	Preserved	Destroyed

The file-size row is worth a note. Removal usually shrinks the document roughly in proportion to what you dropped, but not exactly — resources shared across the file, fonts especially, are stored once for the whole document rather than per page, so deleting half the pages rarely halves the bytes.

Removing pages is a privacy step, not just tidying

The most valuable use of this tool is not making documents shorter. It is not sending someone pages they should not see: the salary appendix in a board pack, the unrelated transactions on a bank statement you need for an address check, the internal notes at the back of a report going to a client.

Because removed pages are simply not carried into the new document, their content is genuinely gone rather than hidden. That is different from covering something with a black box, which leaves the text underneath — if you need to redact within a page rather than drop the whole page, useredact PDF, which removes the content properly.

Limits worth knowing

A single-page PDF is rejected, since there is nothing to remove without emptying the file, and you cannot delete every page — at least one must remain, with the button disabled otherwise. Pages keep their original order; this tool does not reorder. A password-protected file cannot be opened, and a permission-restricted file that opens freely will come back as an unencrypted copy. There is no artificial page or size cap, so device memory is the real ceiling.

Related PDF tools

To keep a few pages rather than drop a few, extract pages accepts typed ranges like 1-3, 5, 8-10. For removing, reordering and rotating together in one pass, useorganize PDF; for orientation alone,rotate PDF. Split PDF breaks a document into several files and merge PDF joins them. Once pages are gone the numbering will not match, so add page numbers afterwards, andcompress PDF if size is still a problem.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I delete pages from a PDF online for free?
Choose a PDF and every page appears as a thumbnail. Click any page to mark it for removal — a tick appears and the card highlights — then press the download button. Nothing is uploaded, so confidential documents stay on your device throughout.
How do I remove all the blank backs of a double-sided scan?
That is exactly what the Select Even Pages button is for. Scanning a single-sided stack duplex puts a blank on every even page, so one click marks them all. Select Odd Pages does the reverse, and Clear Selection starts over if you mis-click.
Can I check a page before deleting it?
Yes. Each card has a small expand button that opens the page full screen, and once open you can move through the document with the left and right arrow keys, the on-screen arrows, or a slider. Escape closes it. Thumbnails are small, so this is worth using on dense text.
Can I type page numbers instead of clicking?
Not on this tool — selection here is visual, with even and odd shortcuts. If you would rather type something like 1-3, 5, 8-10, use the extract pages tool and select the pages you want to keep instead. It is the same job approached from the opposite direction.
Will deleting pages reduce the quality of the pages I keep?
No. The kept pages are copied as intact objects into a new document, so vector text stays selectable, embedded fonts survive and images are never recompressed. Nothing is rendered to a bitmap, which is what makes cheaper tools blur text and inflate the file.
Can I reorder the remaining pages at the same time?
No, this tool only removes — the surviving pages keep their original sequence. For moving pages around, or for doing removal and reordering and rotation together in one pass, use the organize PDF tool instead.
Are there any limits on which PDFs work?
Two. A single-page PDF is rejected, since there would be nothing left to keep, and you cannot delete every page — at least one has to remain. A password-protected file cannot be opened at all, and a permission-restricted file will save as an unencrypted copy.
Does removing pages make the file smaller?
Usually yes, roughly in proportion to what you dropped, because the content of removed pages is not carried into the new document. It is not exact, since shared resources such as fonts are kept once for the whole file rather than per page.