How to delete pages from a PDF (and keep the rest intact)

Deleting pages from a PDF means removing just the pages you don't want — blank scans, an outdated draft, a page you'd rather not share — while every remaining page keeps its order, text quality, and image resolution. It's the standard move before sending a file out or slimming one down.

Before you delete: your original file stays untouched

The tool never modifies the file you load. Deletion always writes out a new PDF built only from the pages you keep. There is no undo inside the tool, but since your original is never touched, a wrong selection costs you one retry, nothing more.

Step 1: open the tool and drop your PDF

Open the Delete PDF Pages tool and drag your file in, or click to browse. Your browser reads the file directly; nothing is uploaded to any server. Contracts, invoices, medical records — they stay on your device the whole time.

Step 2: enter the pages to delete

Type the page numbers you want gone. Single pages and ranges mix freely: "3, 6-9" deletes page 3 and everything from 6 through 9. Consecutive, scattered, or a long tail at the end — all the same to the tool.

Step 3: delete, verify the page count, download

Click Delete and the tool assembles a new PDF from the remaining pages. Check the page count before downloading: if 30 minus 3 leaves 27, the selection did exactly what you asked. Then download and you're done.

Common mistakes and how to dodge them

• Count pages the PDF way: printed page numbers can be offset by the cover or table of contents. The tool counts physical pages, front to back.
• Over-deleted? Start again: there's no in-tool undo, but your original file is intact — adjust the selection and rerun.
• Keeping less than you delete? Use extraction: if you only want page 4, extracting that one page beats deleting forty others.

Deleting a page is not redacting it

Page deletion is good pre-send hygiene, but if the goal is hiding a name, an account number, or a clause inside a page you're keeping, that's a job for the redaction tool. Deleted pages are truly gone from the output; the pages you keep pass through untouched. Knowing that boundary tells you which tool to reach for.