How to delete pages from a PDF (without Acrobat)

Delete PDF pages in your browser

1. Open Delete PDF Pages.

   Go to kitfuse.pro/delete-pdf-pages and add your PDF. Each page appears as a thumbnail.

2. Mark the pages to remove.

   Click or tap them; they turn red. Or type pages and ranges such as 1, 4-6, 12-end in Pages to delete.

3. Save.

   Press Delete pages and save. You get a new PDF with -edited in its name; the original isn't changed.

How to delete pages from a PDF on a Mac

1. Open the PDF in Preview and choose View › Thumbnails.
2. Select the page to remove. Hold Cmd to select several, or Shift for a run of pages.
3. Press Delete (or choose Edit › Delete).
4. Choose File › Export as PDF to save a copy, or File › Save to change the original.

How to delete pages from a PDF on Windows (the print trick)

Windows has no PDF page editor, but you can "print" only the pages you want to keep into a new PDF:

1. Open the PDF in Edge or Chrome and press Ctrl + P.
2. Choose Microsoft Print to PDF (Edge) or Save as PDF (Chrome) as the printer.
3. Under Pages, enter the pages to keep, for example 1-3, 5, 8-12.
4. Print and choose where to save the new file.

The catch: printing rebuilds the document, so links, bookmarks, form fields and accessibility tags are usually lost, and some files grow larger. When you want the remaining pages copied exactly, use the browser method above.

How to delete PDF pages on iPhone and iPad

1. Open the PDF in the Files app and show the page thumbnails (swipe from the left edge or tap the sidebar button).
2. Touch and hold the page you want to remove.
3. Choose Delete, then tap Done.

How to delete PDF pages on Android

Android can use the same print trick: open the PDF, choose Print, select Save as PDF, and under Pages choose the range to keep. It has the same drawbacks as on Windows. The browser method works in Chrome on Android without them.

How to remove blank pages from a scanned PDF

Duplex scanners scan both sides of every sheet, so single-sided documents come out with a blank page after every real one. If that's the pattern, select every even page in one go (Select even pages in Delete PDF Pages), then glance at the thumbnails: a back that has a signature, stamp or handwritten note isn't really blank. Scanned "blank" pages are rarely perfectly white, so tools that auto-detect blanks can be fooled by smudges or show-through; a quick visual check is more reliable.

Delete, split or organize?

• Delete pages when you want almost everything and need to drop a few pages.
• Split PDF when you want to keep a few pages out of many, or cut a document into separate files.
• Organize PDF when you also need to reorder or rotate pages, or combine pages from several PDFs.

Deleting pages also helps file size: images used only on removed pages are dropped, so a long scan often gets noticeably smaller. For more savings, follow up with Compress PDF.

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