How to delete pages from a PDF
- Add your PDF. Drop the file onto the box above, or tap it to choose a PDF from your device.
- Wait for the page previews. Each page appears as a numbered thumbnail. Long documents load a few pages at a time.
- Tap the pages to remove. Each tapped page fades and shows a Removed label. Tap it again if you change your mind.
- Check the summary. It tells you how many pages will be saved and how many are being removed.
- Save and download. Press Save PDF, then download the file. It keeps the remaining pages in their original order.
Features
- Tap to remove, tap to restore. One simple action per page, designed for touch screens as well as a mouse.
- Numbered thumbnails so you can be sure you are removing the right page.
- Running count of kept and removed pages before you save.
- Reset to clear every selection and start over.
- Original order preserved for the pages you keep.
- Clean copy. The saved PDF contains only the kept pages, so content used only by removed pages is left out of the new file.
- Friendly errors for damaged or password-protected files.
Why use Fileora to delete PDF pages
There are plenty of reasons to trim a PDF. Scanners add blank pages when a sheet is double-sided on one side only. Printed-to-PDF web pages end with a page of links and adverts. A bank statement includes a page of account details you don't want to send to a landlord. A report has an appendix the recipient doesn't need. In each case you want the same document, minus a few pages.
Removing pages is exactly the kind of job you should not have to upload a file for. With Fileora, the PDF is processed inside your browser, so the pages you remove, and the pages you keep, are never sent anywhere. There's no account, no watermark and no limit on how many documents you edit, and the tool works in phone browsers as well as on a computer.
If you'd rather keep the pages you take out as a separate document, split the PDF instead. To remove pages and also rearrange or rotate what's left, use organize PDF. If the trimmed file is still large, compress it before sending.
Removing sensitive pages safely
Deleting a page before sharing a document is a simple way to keep private details out of other people's hands. It is more reliable than drawing a box over the information, because covered text can sometimes still be selected or copied. When a page is removed with this tool, the new PDF is built from the other pages only, so the removed page is not in the file you download.
Two checks are worth doing before you send the result. First, open the downloaded PDF and scroll through it, confirming the right pages are gone. Second, remember that information can also appear on the pages you kept, in headers, footers or summary tables, so read those pages too. Deleting a page removes that page, not details repeated elsewhere in the document.
For blank pages in scanned documents, look closely at the thumbnails: a page that looks empty may carry a faint signature or a date stamp on the back of a form.