Guides · Updated August 2026
How to Delete Pages from a PDF
Scanners produce blanks and duplicates; reports carry internal pages that shouldn't leave the building. Deleting pages sounds trivial, but doing it by page number in a 60-page scan is guesswork — you want to see the pages.
One important distinction before you start: page deletion removes whole pages. Sensitive text inside a page you keep needs redaction, which is a different operation — don't confuse the two when the stakes are real.
Step by step
- Open the tool and choose your PDF — every page renders as a thumbnail on your device.
- Click × on each page to remove. The grid updates so you always see the document you're about to produce.
- Reorder or rotate while you're here if anything else needs fixing — it's one rebuild either way.
- Apply changes and download. The output contains only the kept pages; removed pages aren't hidden in it, they're absent.
Tips that save a retry
- Blank-page cleanup after scanning is this tool's most common job — thumbnails make blanks obvious at a glance.
- Your original file on disk is never modified; every download is a new file.
Questions
Is deleted content recoverable from the output file?
No — the output is rebuilt from the kept pages only. (But remember: content inside kept pages is untouched; that's redaction's job.)