Delete PDF Pages — Remove Pages Visually

The tool renders every page of your PDF as a thumbnail using pdf.js. Each thumbnail is clickable: a first click marks the page for deletion (a red overlay appears with a checkmark), a second click removes the mark. This visual mode is by far the fastest way to work with short-to-medium documents and is especially popular on tablets and phones, where selecting ranges by typing is awkward.

For documents with hundreds of pages, thumbnail rendering can take a moment. In that case, use the alternative range input (“3, 5, 8-10”) below the grid — it applies the same delete operation without waiting for thumbnails to render.

Under the hood, we use pdf-lib’s removePage API, which drops pages from the document’s page tree without touching the content of remaining pages. That means kept pages preserve their embedded fonts, images and vector graphics at the exact quality they had in the input file. There is no rasterization step and therefore no degradation.

The file size of the output is almost always smaller than the input, because the deleted pages’ content streams and any objects only referenced from those pages are dropped during save. In the rare case where a shared image is referenced by both kept and deleted pages, only the deleted-only assets are removed.

Delete PDF Pages and Extract PDF Pages are two sides of the same coin. Use Delete when you know which pages you want to remove and want to keep everything else; use Extract when you know which pages you want to keep and want to discard everything else. Both produce a single output PDF and both are lossless.

For most workflows, Delete is more intuitive when the removals are small and scattered (e.g. “remove the intro and the last two pages”), and Extract is faster when the retained pages are a small subset of a large document (e.g. “keep only pages 45 and 78”).

Removing pages often means removing sensitive material — a signed page, a personal note, an internal comment. That is why we designed this tool to run entirely offline in the browser. The file you drop is opened, edited and saved inside your device’s memory, and nothing ever crosses the network. Enterprise IT teams can whitelist this URL with the same confidence as any static content page.