How to Delete Pages From a PDF

Not every page in a PDF earns its place. Blank separators, an outdated appendix, a duplicate scan — removing them gives you a leaner document that is quicker to read and smaller to send.

When to remove pages

• Blank pages left behind by a scanner or a print-to-PDF export.
• Outdated sections you do not want circulating.
• Duplicates created during scanning or merging.
• Trimming a long file down to just the relevant pages before sharing.

Delete vs. extract — know the difference

These two operations are mirror images. Deleting removes the pages you select and keeps everything else. Extracting does the opposite — it keeps the pages you select and discards the rest. If you only want a handful of pages out of a hundred, extracting is far less clicking; if you want to drop a few from an otherwise complete document, deleting is the way.

How to delete pages

1. Open the Remove Pages tool and upload your PDF.
2. Select the page numbers you want to delete.
3. Click Process and download the slimmed-down file.

Related tools

To keep a subset instead, use the Extract Pages tool; to reorder what remains, the Organize PDF tool lets you drag pages into the sequence you want.