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Delete PDF Pages
Delete Pages from a PDF — Free Online Tool
Mark the pages you want gone and download the document without them.
About Delete PDF Pages
This is the page picker you already know, inverted: what you select is what leaves. That inversion is the whole tool and it is the one thing worth being sure about, so it is restated everywhere the selection is visible — a red cross on each doomed thumbnail, a header that counts the pages that will be removed, a rail readout showing Removing and Remaining side by side, and a button that says Delete rather than anything vaguer. Click thumbnails to mark pages, or type them into the RANGE field the same way you would anywhere else here; Select all and Deselect all are in the rail. The pages that survive are copied into a fresh document by pdf-lib, whole — their fonts, images and vector art travel with them untouched, their annotations come across on the pages they sit on, and the order they were in is the order they keep. What stays behind is everything that hangs off the document rather than off a page: the outline tree, the interactive form, named destinations and page labels. So the result starts with no bookmarks, roman-numeral front matter reverts to plain numbering, and a fillable form comes out still showing every field and its filled-in text but no longer fillable — the same losses merging and splitting here have. The pages you marked are genuinely gone from the file, not merely hidden from the page count — including their content streams, which is the part that is easy to get wrong when a page you kept still links to one you removed. Those links are handled: a cross-reference whose target survived is repointed at it, and one whose target you deleted has its destination stripped so the link sits there inert rather than jumping somewhere arbitrary. Two deliberate refusals. The set of pages to keep is worked out from the document itself at the moment of the edit, not from a page count read earlier, so a stale number can never delete the wrong thing. And selecting every page is blocked outright: a PDF with no pages is a structurally valid file that no reader will open, so the tool says so and leaves the button disabled rather than handing you one. Nothing is uploaded — the original file on your disk is never touched.
Questions
Do I select the pages I want to keep or the ones I want gone?
The ones you want gone. This tool is the page picker inverted: every page you mark is removed and everything else is kept. The thumbnails you pick get a red cross, the header counts the pages that will be removed, and the rail shows Removing and Remaining side by side so the meaning is never in doubt.
Can I delete every page?
No, and that is deliberate. A PDF with zero pages is a structurally valid file that no reader will open, so once every page is marked the tool shows a warning and leaves the Delete button disabled. Leave at least one page behind.
What happens to the pages that stay?
They are copied into a fresh document whole — fonts, images, vector art and each page's own annotations travel with them, and they keep their original relative order. What is left behind is the document-level layer: the outline tree, the interactive form, named destinations and page labels. So the result starts with no bookmarks, roman-numeral front matter comes back as plain numbering, and a fillable form still shows every field and its filled-in text but is no longer fillable. Links between pages you kept still work; a link to a page you deleted has its destination removed, so it sits there inert instead of jumping somewhere arbitrary.
Are the deleted pages really gone from the file?
Yes — this is not like cropping, where what you hide is still in the document. A deleted page's own content is removed, not just left out of the page count, and that holds even when a page you kept carries a link pointing at one you removed: those links have their destination stripped rather than being allowed to hold the old page in the file. What can remain is anything a deleted page shared with a page you kept — a font, or an image used on both — because the surviving page still needs it.
Does this change my original file?
No. The file on your disk is read and never written to. What you download is a new PDF; if you delete the wrong pages, just drop the original in again and start over.
What is the downloaded file called?
pages-removed.pdf. It is a fixed name rather than one derived from your document, so a result is never mistaken for the original it came from.
Is my file uploaded to a server?
No. Transmute processes everything locally in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your files never leave your device — there is no server, no upload, no cloud processing.