Answer: Drop a PDF above, tick the pages to delete — the remaining pages are merged into a new file locally, no upload.
Click × on any page — the download simply doesn't contain it
| Aspect | After downloading |
|---|---|
| Deleted pages in the output | Absent — only kept pages are copied into the new file |
| Text on deleted pages | Gone with the page; searching the output finds nothing from them |
| Kept pages' content | Byte-identical page content — text stays selectable and searchable |
| Bookmarks (the outline panel) | Not carried over. The rebuilt file starts without an outline, so re-add bookmarks if readers rely on them |
| Your original file | Untouched on disk — deletion happens in the downloaded copy only |
| Redaction of partial content | Not this tool — deleting removes whole pages; to destroy selected words on a page, redact instead |
Deleting a page should mean the page is gone, and here it does: the exporter copies only the pages you kept into a fresh document, so anything you removed — the duplicate agenda, the blank scan, the page with last quarter's numbers — never exists in the output file at all.
A 12-page board packet contains a duplicated agenda on page 3 and a blank back-scan on page 9. Open the file, click × on both thumbnails, and the status line reads "10 of 12 pages will be in the output." Download and the new PDF contains pages 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 in their original order — no page 3, no page 9, and nothing from either one searchable in the copy. The 12-page original stays untouched for the archive.
Because the output is a fresh PDF built from copies of your kept pages, anything that lives on a page comes along, and anything that belongs to the document as a whole mostly doesn't. That's usually what you want. It's worth knowing before you send the file to someone.
| Part of the PDF | Where it lives | In the trimmed copy? |
|---|---|---|
| Text, images, vector graphics | On the page | Yes, unchanged |
| Page size and rotation | On the page | Yes; any rotation you set in the tool is applied |
| Comments, highlights, stamps | Page annotations | Yes, on kept pages |
| Links to web addresses | Page annotations | Yes |
| Links to other pages in the file | Page annotations | Can break if they pointed at a deleted page |
| Fillable form fields | Page plus a document-level form | May look right but stop being fillable; test before sending |
| Bookmarks | Document level | No |
| Title, author, subject properties | Document level | No; the copy gets fresh properties and a new creation date |
The last row is a small privacy bonus. If the original's properties carried an author name or an old draft title, the trimmed copy doesn't inherit them. Check File > Properties in your PDF reader if that matters for what you're sharing.
Want to keep the pages but change their order? Use Rearrange PDF Pages. Need to hide a name or account number on a page you're keeping? That's a job for Redact PDF, since deleting only works on whole pages. And if you want to delete, reorder and rotate in one pass, Organize PDF does all three with the same engine.
Open the file in a thumbnail-based page tool, click the × on each page you want removed, and download the rebuilt PDF. This one runs entirely in your browser — no account, no watermark, and no upload of the document to anyone's server.
Yes. The download is a new PDF assembled by copying only the pages you kept, so the deleted pages — their text, images, and form fields — are not present in the output at all. They're not hidden, commented out, or recoverable from the downloaded copy; keep your original if you might need them back.
Not from the downloaded file — once pages are left out, rebuilding them means returning to the original document. Inside the tool, though, every deleted page sits in a restore strip until you download, so a mis-click costs you one click, not the file.
Usually because the pages you removed were text-only while the remaining pages carry images, embedded fonts, or scanned content that dominates the file's size. The output only contains the kept pages' resources, so deleting the heavy pages is what visibly shrinks the file.
Usually not directly. Encrypted PDFs generally fail at the export step because the file has to be decrypted before pages can be copied into a new document. Open it in a reader where you know the password, save or print an unprotected copy, and delete pages from that.
Bookmarks don't carry over, because they belong to the document rather than to any page. Fillable fields travel with their pages but can stop being editable once they're separated from the original document-level form, so test a form before sending it on.