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Delete pages
Remove the pages you don't need. Free, no sign-up.
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How to delete pages from a PDF
Deleting removes the pages you select and renumbers what remains.
- Open your PDF. Every page appears as a thumbnail.
- Select the pages to remove. Click any page to mark it for deletion.
- Download the result. A new PDF without those pages. The original is untouched.
The pages are not marked deleted — they are never copied
Deleting here does not flag pages as removed inside your file. It builds a new document and copies the pages you kept into it one at a time; the pages you ticked are simply never copied. What you download is a fresh document rather than an updated version of the one you opened, so there is no in-place save leaving an earlier revision of the file inside the bytes you pass on.
One caveat, and it matters if sensitivity is the reason you are deleting. If a page you kept carries an internal link that pointed at a page you removed, the copy drags that link’s target along with it, so the removed page’s content can still be sitting in the file even though no reader will display it. Deleting also only ever works in whole pages: if the material you are worried about is on a page you are keeping, removing other pages does nothing for it. Both cases are jobs for Redact PDF.
Picking the right pages to remove
The number under each thumbnail is the page’s position in the file, which is often not the number printed on the page. A report with a cover and four pages of roman-numbered front matter has its printed page 1 at position 6, so a list of pages to drop taken off the printed numbers will be five out. Trust the thumbnails.
Two rules govern the button. Nothing selected and it stays off; everything selected and it also stays off, because a document with no pages is not a file anyone can open — to be rid of a document, delete the document. Once it has run you are told how many pages went and how many remain, which is the quickest check that you took out what you meant to. If you want the removed pages kept as a file of their own rather than discarded, run Extract pages on the original with the opposite selection first.
Questions
Can I undo a deletion?
Your original file is never changed, so simply start again with it. Nothing you do here can damage the file on your disk.
Does deleting pages make the file smaller?
Somewhat. Page content goes, but shared fonts and images may remain. Run Compress PDF afterwards if size is the goal.
Why is the Delete button greyed out?
Either nothing is selected yet, or every page is. The result has to contain at least one page, so selecting all of them leaves nothing to build a document from. Deselect one page and the button turns on.
Can I delete pages from a scan without spoiling the image quality?
Yes. The pages you keep are copied across exactly as they are, including their original image data. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed, so the pages that remain look identical to the ones you started with.
Will bookmarks and links still work in the trimmed file?
Page content, text and annotations survive intact, but the bookmark tree is not carried into the new document, and internal links that jumped from one page to another will no longer land correctly. On a heavily cross-referenced document, check the links before you send it on.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, using the same engine as the Folia desktop app. Your file is read from your disk into your browser’s memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It never crosses the internet, so there is nothing for us to store, leak or hand over.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The only ceiling is your own device’s memory, which differs from one computer to another — so we read what your browser reports about this machine and show the resulting limit on the page. Light tools like merge and rotate handle far more than heavy ones like OCR, which must render every page. For anything larger, Folia for Desktop has no limit at all.
Is it really free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every tool is free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up. Ads pay for the site, and your own computer does the work, which costs us nothing. Signing in with a paid Folia plan simply removes the ads.