Scanned documents almost always pick up a few pages you don’t actually want in the final file — a blank separator sheet, an accidental duplicate scan, a cover page that doesn’t need to be there. Deleting them shouldn’t require re-scanning or rebuilding the whole document.
The quick way
Delete PDF Pages shows every page as a thumbnail:
- Upload your PDF.
- Click each page you want gone — they highlight in red so you can see exactly what you’ve selected.
- Double-check the selection.
- Download — the file comes back without those pages, everything else intact and in its original order.
Nothing is removed until you actually download, so it’s safe to click through and reconsider before committing.
If the PDF is password-protected
This tool has to actually open the file to generate those thumbnails, and an encrypted PDF won’t open until it’s unlocked — so a password-protected file won’t get that far; it’ll fail before you see a single page. Run it through Unlock PDF first (you’ll need to already know the password — it doesn’t crack or guess one), then delete pages from the unlocked copy. If the file needs to stay locked for whoever you’re sending it to, Password Protect a PDF puts a password back on afterward.
Selecting a lot of pages
There’s no limit to how many pages you can select at once — click as many as you need, review the list, then download in one pass rather than deleting one page and re-downloading repeatedly. There’s no shift-click range-select for grabbing “pages 10 through 40” in one move, though — each page is its own click. For a handful of scattered pages that’s no slower than any other method; for a genuinely huge contiguous block, it can be quicker to flip the logic entirely (see below).
The opposite problem: keeping only certain pages
If you find yourself clicking to select most of the document and leaving just a couple out, it’s usually faster to flip your approach: use Extract PDF Pages instead and click the few pages you want to keep. Same underlying idea, opposite selection — pick whichever needs fewer clicks for your specific file.
After deleting pages
If the document has visible page numbers that now skip or repeat after the deletion, run the result through Add Page Numbers afterward to renumber it cleanly from wherever you want to start.
Don’t expect the file to shrink by much just because pages left it. Size mostly tracks images and embedded fonts, not page count — cut ten mostly-text pages out of a 40-page scanned report and the file barely moves, because the heavy stuff is still sitting on the pages you kept. If the result still needs to be smaller, Compress PDF afterward actually targets the file weight instead.
Two other things don’t survive the trip. A bookmarks panel (the clickable table-of-contents sidebar some PDFs have) won’t carry over at all — this tool builds the output fresh from whichever pages you kept, and that fresh file starts with no outline. If you need one, rebuild it afterward with Add Bookmarks to a PDF once you know the new page numbers. And any internal link that used to jump to a page you just deleted now goes nowhere — worth a quick click-through if the original document had a lot of cross-references.