RunToolRunRemove PDF Pages
Remove specific pages from PDF.
How to Remove Pages from a PDF
Select a PDF
Click the upload area or drop the document you want to trim.
Pick pages to delete
Enter page numbers or ranges (e.g. 2, 5-7) — the rest of the document stays untouched.
Download the trimmed PDF
Save a new file without the removed pages. The original is never modified.
The pages are genuinely gone
Removing pages rebuilds the document from the pages you keep, writing a new file with a fresh cross-reference table. The discarded pages are not hidden or marked invisible — they are not in the output at all, and nothing in the new file can recover them.
That distinction matters when the reason for removing a page is that it should not be seen. Unlike drawing a black box over content, which leaves the text underneath extractable, deleting the page removes the content itself.
Nothing else is re-encoded
The pages you keep are copied as objects along with the fonts and images they reference. No page is re-rendered, so text stays text, vectors stay sharp and scanned pages keep their original resolution. The operation is lossless in the strict sense.
The file usually shrinks by roughly the share of content removed, though not exactly: resources shared between pages, such as an embedded font, are kept as long as any remaining page still needs them.
What breaks when pages disappear
Internal links and bookmarks pointing at a removed page have nowhere to go, and links to pages after it may now point at the wrong place, because page numbers shift. In a long report with a clickable table of contents, this is worth checking rather than assuming.
Printed page numbers inside the content do not renumber themselves either — they were drawn onto the page when the document was made. A document that jumps from page 4 to page 7 looks like a mistake even when the removal was deliberate.
Signatures and forms
A digital signature covers the whole document, so removing any page invalidates it permanently. If the file needs to remain verifiably signed, the pages must be removed before signing. Form fields on remaining pages generally survive, but a document rebuilt this way is worth testing if the form still needs to be filled.
Encrypted documents must be decrypted before pages can be removed, since the tool cannot read the page structure through the encryption.
Working locally on sensitive documents
The most common use is removing something before sharing: a page of personal details from a bank statement, an internal cover note from a report, a blank scanner page. Those are exactly the files you should not be uploading to an unknown service, and here they stay on your device.
Keep the original until you have checked the result. Page removal is fast to redo and impossible to undo — the deleted pages exist only in the file you started from.