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Delete PDF Pages — Remove, Reorder and Rotate

Delete pages from a PDF, reorder what is left and turn any page. Rebuilt in your browser, with bookmarks and links repointed.

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About the Delete PDF Pages — Remove, Reorder and Rotate

Delete pages from PDF files right here in the browser: mark the pages you do not want, drag the rest into the order you need, turn any that came out sideways, and save. Nothing is uploaded — and unlike the tools that hand you a shorter file and wish you luck, the document's bookmarks and internal links are repointed at their new page numbers instead of being silently dropped, with the count shown before you export.

Deleting a page is easy; keeping a document that still navigates is the hard part. The outline is a tree of destinations that name page objects, and an internal link is an annotation that names one too, so both break the moment the pages are rebuilt in a new order — and they break silently, because the PDF still opens and the page count still looks right. The symptom arrives later: a bookmark that jumps to the wrong chapter, or a table-of-contents link that goes nowhere at all. This tool reads both before it copies a single page, rebuilds them against the new page objects, and tells you how many it could keep while you are still deciding which pages to remove.

How to use the Delete PDF Pages — Remove, Reorder and Rotate

  1. Add your PDF, or drop it in. Every page appears as a card with a preview, rendered as you scroll rather than all at once.
  2. Click Remove on the pages you do not want, drag a card (or use its arrows) to change the order, and use the rotate buttons on any page that is sideways. Undo puts the last change back.
  3. Save PDF. The file is rebuilt in your browser, and the bookmarks and internal links that survive are repointed at their new pages.

What deleting a page does to the rest of the document

Part of the fileWhat this tool doesWhy it matters
Page objectsCopied into a new document, never re-rendered.Text stays selectable and searchable, images are not re-compressed, and fonts are carried over rather than substituted.
Document outline (/Outlines)Read before the copy, then rebuilt: surviving items are repointed at their new page numbers and items whose page was removed are dropped.A page organiser that copies pages into a fresh document leaves the outline behind entirely, so every bookmark vanishes. Nothing warns you; the file simply has no bookmarks any more.
Internal link annotationsDetached from their destination before the copy, then repointed at the page's new object. Links to removed pages are removed with them.A link destination names a page object. Copying pages while it is still attached makes the copier pull the target page in as an orphan object — the file grows and the link points at a page that is not in the page tree.
Page rotation (/Rotate)Added to the page's existing angle, not set to it.A page already stored at 90° opens at 90°; one turn right writes 180°. Setting the angle outright would snap a sideways scan back to 0 and lose the original orientation.
Bookmark counts (/Count)Recomputed from the surviving tree, and kept negative where the source had the branch collapsed.A stale count makes a viewer draw an expand arrow with nothing behind it, or hide a branch that still has entries.
Output name{original-name}-edited.pdfThe source file is never overwritten, so the original pages are always one file away if you remove the wrong one.

Measured on this page while it was built, on two real files. A 7,736-byte six-page PDF carrying a six-item outline (one item nested) and one internal link came back at 4,255 bytes after two pages were deleted and one was moved to the front: four pages, four bookmarks, and the surviving link repointed from page 2 to page 4. An 81,338-byte sixty-page document with a four-chapter outline came back at 69,136 bytes with 58 pages and its nested branch intact, because the page that carried the nested item was the one removed and the chapter above it was retargeted at its first surviving section. Both outputs passed qpdf --check, and both outlines were read back out of the produced files rather than from the tool's own report.

Frequently asked questions

How do I delete pages from a PDF?

Open the PDF here and every page appears as a card with a preview. Click Remove under a page to mark it for deletion — the card dims and is labelled Removed, but stays in place so Undo can bring it back. Mark as many pages as you like, in any order, then click Save PDF. The new file contains only the pages you kept, in the order you left them.

Can I reorder pages as well as delete them?

Yes, and it is the same screen. Drag a page card to a new position, or use the left and right arrows on the card, which also work by keyboard and on a touch screen. The number badge on each card shows the position that page will have in the saved file, so you can see the new order before you export. Deleting, reordering and rotating are one pass rather than three separate tools.

What happens to bookmarks and internal links when I delete a page?

They are rebuilt, and the panel above the pages tells you how many will survive. Every bookmark and internal link is read before any page is copied: a destination pointing at a page you kept is repointed at that page's new position, and a destination pointing at a page you removed is dropped rather than left pointing at nothing. Most tools do neither — the outline is not carried into the new document at all, so every bookmark disappears, and internal links are left naming page objects that no longer exist.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. The PDF is opened, edited and rebuilt entirely in your browser with pdf-lib and pdf.js. There is no upload step, no account and no server copy, which is why the tool works with the network disconnected once the page has loaded.

Can I delete pages from a password-protected PDF?

Not while the password is on it. A PDF that asks for a password to open cannot be parsed here, and the tool says so by name rather than failing silently — remove the password first, then delete the pages. A file that only carries an owner password and opens without one is fine.

Is there a page or file size limit?

No hard limit on either. Page previews are rendered only as you scroll, so a long document stays responsive instead of rasterising every page up front, and the export copies page objects rather than re-rendering them, so a 300-page file costs roughly what a 3-page one does per page. Very large files take longer to open and to save, and the tab needs enough memory to hold the document.

Does deleting pages make the PDF smaller?

Usually, and by roughly the share of pages you removed — but not proportionally, because a PDF stores fonts, images and shared resources once and the surviving pages still reference them. Removing a page that carries a large scanned image frees that image; removing a page of plain text frees almost nothing. The saved size is reported in the status line so you can see what actually happened.

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