How to Delete Pages from a PDF Free Online (No Acrobat Needed)

Why Delete Pages from a PDF?

PDFs arrive in all states — cover sheets you don't need, blank pages at the end, duplicate pages from a scanner, confidential pages that shouldn't be in a shared document. Rather than recreating the whole file, you can surgically remove just the pages you don't want.

Adobe Acrobat Pro costs $23.99/month for this operation. ToolNest does it free, in your browser, right now.

How to Delete PDF Pages (Step-by-Step)

1. Open Delete Pages from PDF on ToolNest
2. Upload your PDF
3. Enter the pages to remove in the text field, e.g. 2,4,6-9
4. Click Delete Pages
5. Download your new PDF — the pages are gone

Page Range Syntax

The page range format is flexible:

• 2 — removes only page 2
• 2,5 — removes pages 2 and 5
• 3-7 — removes pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• 1,3-5,10 — removes pages 1, 3, 4, 5, and 10

Page numbers are 1-based — page 1 is the first page of the document.

Delete Pages vs Extract Pages

These are two approaches to the same problem:

I want to...	Use this tool
Keep most pages, remove a few	Delete Pages from PDF
Keep only a few pages, discard the rest	Extract PDF Pages

If you want to remove 3 pages from a 50-page document, delete is easier. If you want to keep only pages 5–8 from a 50-page document, extract is easier.

Can This Damage My PDF?

No. The tool creates a brand-new PDF containing only the pages you kept. Your original uploaded file is never modified. If you make a mistake, just re-upload the original and try again.

Limitations

• Password-protected PDFs: Unlock the PDF first using Unlock PDF
• Page order: Deleting does not reorder pages — the remaining pages maintain their original order
• Maximum file size: 50 MB

Related Tools

• Extract PDF Pages — create a new PDF from selected pages
• Split PDF — divide a PDF into separate files
• Merge PDF — combine PDFs back together after editing