How to Delete Pages From a PDF Without Acrobat
Delete pages from a PDF without Acrobat: open Split, choose Pick pages, click the pages to keep, and download one new PDF. Free, in your browser.
There is no Delete button. On the free PDF tool you open Split, choose Pick pages, click the pages you want to keep, and download one new PDF. The pages you skip are left out. No Acrobat, no signup, and the file stays on your device.
1. Open the PDF in Split
Open the PDF tool, choose Split, and pick your PDF (or drop it in). Thumbnails of every page appear.
If the file has a password, remove it in the program that made it first. This tool can't open locked PDFs.
2. Choose Pick pages
Split offers three methods: Every page, Page ranges, and Pick pages. For dropping unwanted pages and keeping the rest as one file, choose Pick pages.
Need several files by range instead? See how to split a PDF into multiple files by page range.
3. Click the pages to keep
Click each thumbnail you want in the new file. Selection is sorted by page number, so click order doesn't matter. You need at least one page; an empty selection shows "Select at least one page by clicking its thumbnail."
4. Split and download
Click Split and download. You get one PDF named like report-selected-pages.pdf (not a zip). Open it and check bookmarks and links: they may not carry over after the extract.
5. What this tool does not do
It runs on your device, free, with no signup, ads or watermark. There is no page or size cap beyond your device's memory.
It has no OCR, and it can't compress, rotate, edit text or sign. It also doesn't delete pages with a trash control: you keep by picking, and leave the rest out.
On Acrobat or a Mac?
Adobe Acrobat desktop can delete selected pages under Organize pages (see Adobe's Delete pages in PDFs help). You must leave at least one page in the file.
On a Mac, Preview lets you drag thumbnails to the desktop to make a new PDF of the pages you want.
Where your files go
The split runs in your browser, so your PDF never leaves your device. The page does load Google Analytics, which counts visits. Details are on the privacy page.
Next step
Open the PDF tool, choose Split, then Pick pages, click the pages to keep, and download. It's free, with no signup.
Keep the pages you want
Open Split in the free PDF tool, choose Pick pages, click the pages to keep, and download one new PDF. It runs on your device, so nothing is uploaded.
