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Delete pages from a PDF — keep what you want.
The Split tool isn't just for splitting — type the ranges you want to keep, and pages outside those ranges are dropped. A PDF with pages 1-50, where you tell it to keep 1-5, 8, 11-end, gives you back a 47-page PDF without 6, 7, 9, and 10.
How it works
- Drop the PDF onto letsgoPDF. Pick Split.
- In the Ranges field, type which pages to keep:
1-endKeeps everything (default)1-10Keeps just pages 1 through 101-5, 8, 11-endKeeps pages 1-5, page 8, and 11 to the end. Drops 6, 7, 9, 10.2-endDrops just the cover page
- Click Apply. A new PDF with only the kept pages downloads. The original is untouched.
Why delete pages instead of redacting them
- Pages with sensitive data. Internal cover sheets, draft watermarks, or comment pages you don't want shared.
- Cover and back pages from scans. Document scanners often pad with blank cover/back pages — drop them in one go.
- Trim a long report to its summary. Keep just the executive summary pages and drop the rest.
- Fix a merged file. If you merged two PDFs and the second one had a duplicate cover, this is the easiest fix.
For sensitive content within a page (rather than whole pages), use Smart Redact instead — it auto-detects emails, SSNs, credit cards.
Common questions
- What if I want to keep ALL except specific pages, instead of typing what to keep?
- That's the next-feature on the roadmap (a "delete these pages" inverse mode). For now, since most PDFs have contiguous good ranges with a few drops, the keep-syntax handles 95% of cases concisely. If you really want to drop pages 13 and 27 from a 50-page PDF, type
1-12, 14-26, 28-end. - Will deleted pages still be recoverable from the output PDF?
- No. Page deletion creates a fresh PDF without the dropped pages — they're not "hidden", they're gone. The original on your computer is untouched.
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. Page deletion runs in your browser via pdf-lib.
- Does it preserve bookmarks and links?
- Mostly yes. Bookmarks pointing to surviving pages remain. Bookmarks pointing to deleted pages are removed. Cross-page hyperlinks within the document keep working as long as both ends survived.