Delete Pages from PDF

After you pick a file, the tool shows how many pages it has. List the pages to delete using single numbers and hyphenated ranges separated by commas. For a 12-page document, 1, 11-12 deletes the cover and the last two pages and leaves 9 pages: the original pages 2 to 10, in their original order.

The box is pre-filled with 1-3. If you press the button without changing it, the first three pages are deleted. The result downloads as pages-removed.pdf and your original file isn't touched.

Entries the tool can't read are skipped without a message. If none of what you typed is valid, nothing is removed and you get a full copy of the document. Common causes:

• Semicolons or the word “and” instead of commas: 2; 5.
• Backwards ranges: 9-4.
• Open-ended ranges: 10-.
• Page numbers beyond the end of the file.

A quick check is to open the download and compare its page count with what you expected. Listing every page doesn't work either: the tool stops with You can't delete every page.

Both tools give the same kind of result, so pick whichever is shorter to type. Removing a few pages from a long document is easier here. Keeping 3 pages out of 40 is easier with Extract Pages from PDF, where you type 12-14 instead of 1-11, 15-40.

The tool doesn't edit your PDF in place. It builds a new one from copies of the pages you're keeping. That has a few side effects worth knowing: the sidebar bookmarks are gone, the document title and author are empty, and fillable fields may not behave as a form any more. Comments and web links sitting on the kept pages stay with them.