How to delete PDF pages

You have downloaded the digital version of a magazine, would you like to remove the parts you don’t care about from it but you don’t know how to do it? In the office, the boss has entrusted you with the task of correcting a PDF document, reducing its length and eliminating the useless pages in it, but you don’t have the faintest idea how to do it? Don’t worry, I’ll help you!

Sure, editing a PDF file isn’t as simple as editing a Word document, but using the right tools you can do it without wasting too much time. Follow the “tips” on how to delete PDF pages that I am about to give you and I guarantee you that you will not have the slightest problem, both by acting as a computer and as a smartphone and tablet.

How do you say? Aren’t you going to buy expensive paid solutions just to edit a few files? And who told you you have to do it ?! Most of the programs, online services, and apps I’m about to tell you about are totally free. Yes, you read that right! Free. This means that you can edit all the PDF files you want in a very simple way and without spending a penny. So, what are you waiting for to start?

Index

• How to delete PDF pages with computer
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (Windows / macOS)
  • PDFill FREE PDF Tools (Windows)
  • Preview (macOS)
• How to delete PDF pages online
  • Online2PDF
  • Other solutions to delete PDF pages online
• How to delete PDF pages with Android
• How to delete PDF pages on iPhone and iPad

How to delete PDF pages with computer

If you need to delete the pages of a very heavy document and/or that contains confidential information, I recommend that you delete PDF pages with your computer, relying on offline solutions: there are several to choose from, even in the free environment. Find the one that seems to you best suited to your needs among the various ones listed below and start using it thanks to my instructions.

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (Windows / macOS)

If you want to delete PDF pages, the first tool I suggest you consider is Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. As can be guessed from the same name, it is a software developed by Adobe, the software house that invented the PDF format, through which it is possible to open, view and modify files in the format in question, even removing the pages in them. It is compatible with both Windows and macOS and is paid (has a base cost of 18.29 euros/month), but you can try it for free and without limitations for 7 days.

To download the program to your computer, visit its website and click the Try button (7 days). Proceed, therefore, with the activation of the trial, carrying out the registration procedure of the Adobe account, entering the email address you want to use in the appropriate field, the password and providing the payment data. If, on the other hand, you already have an Adobe account you can log in directly. Then wait for the software download to complete.

When the download is complete, if you are using Windows, open the .exe file obtained, click on the Continue and Yes buttons in the window that appears on the desktop and log in to your Adobe account (if necessary). Next, click on the Start installing button.

If you are using macOS, on the other hand, open the .dmg package obtained and double-click on the Acrobat Pro DC installer icon located in the window that appears. Then press the Open button, grant the program the required permissions and proceed in the same way as I have just indicated for the Windows side.

Now that you see the main window of the software, decide whether to make Adobe Acrobat Pro DC the default software to view PDFs or not, then click on the Tools menu located at the top and press the Open button that you find under the heading Organize pages.

At this point, click on the Select a file button located in the center of the screen and select the PDF on your computer you want to edit. Then, click on the preview of the pages to be deleted and press the button with the dustbin present on the toolbar at the top, then click the OK button to confirm your intentions.

When you have finished editing, you can save your new PDF by selecting the Save As item from the Adobe Acrobat Pro File menu and choosing the destination folder for the output file. Alternatively, you can overwrite the original PDF with the one with the pages cut off, by clicking on the floppy disk icon located at the top left.

PDFill FREE PDF Tools (Windows)

If you use Windows, I also recommend that you try PDFill FREE PDF Tools. It is a free software that contains a series of functions dedicated exclusively to editing PDFs. It, therefore, allows not only to delete pages in PDFs, but also to merge and divide documents, reorder the pages in them, convert images to PDF and vice versa, add watermarks to documents, protect PDFs with passwords and more.

To download it on your computer, connected to its official website, click on the Download now button located at the top right under the heading Get this tool only and on the Download Now button located on the page that opens.

When the download is complete, open the .exe file you obtained and, in the window that appears on the desktop, click first on the Yes button and then on the Next button. Accept, therefore, the conditions of use of PDFill FREE PDF Tools by placing the checkmark next to the item I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click on the Next button (twice in a row), then complete the setup by clicking on the buttons Install and Finish. If during the setup you are also offered the download of GhostScript and .Net Framework you agree to this: these are two free (and “clean”) components necessary for the functioning of PDFill FREE PDF Tools.

Once the PDFill FREE PDF Tools window appears on the screen, click the Split or Reorder pages button. Then select the PDF to edit, put the checkmark next to the Delete pages item and indicate the pages of the document to be removed in the adjacent text field. You can indicate single pages, separating them with commas (eg 1,2,5 to delete pages 1, 2 and 5) or a set of pages (eg 1-5 to delete pages 1 to 5).

Next, click the Save as button, select the folder to save the output file and that’s it.

Preview (macOS)

If you have a Mac, you can edit PDF files directly with Preview, the default macOS software for viewing photos, documents and, of course, PDF files.

To delete Mac PDF pages, first of all open the document from which you intend to extract the pages, by double-clicking on its icon (if proceeding in this way does not open Preview, right-click on the file icon, select the item Open with and then Preview from the context menu) and choosing the Thumbnails option from the View menu located at the top of the screen.

At this point, activate the display of the thumbnails by selecting the Thumbnails item from the View menu at the top, then locate the thumbnails of the pages to be deleted in the left sidebar, select them by clicking on them while holding down the cmd key on the keyboard, and delete them, selecting the Delete item from the Edit menu of Preview or using the combination of keys cmd + backspace.

The changes will be automatically applied to the original file. To save a new PDF, first create a duplicate of the original document by right clicking on it and selecting the Duplicate item from the menu that appears. In case of second thoughts, however, to cancel the deletion of pages from a PDF that has just been edited, select the Cancel item from the Edit menu of the application or press the combination of keys cmd + z.

How to delete PDF pages online

If you do not want or cannot download and/or install new programs on your computer and if the documents relating to which you have to go to act do not contain private information, you can decide to delete PDF pages online by resorting to the use of some special web services, such as those that I have reported to you below.

Online2PDF

Online2PDF is an online service that allows you to convert Office documents to PDF and vice versa, to merge and split documents (which is of interest to you at the moment), to unlock documents protected against printing and modification, and more. It’s free and requires no registration to use, but has an upload limit of 100 MB for a single file and 150 MB if you upload multiple PDFs at the same time (up to 20 can be uploaded).

To use it, linked to its home page, click on the Select files button and select the PDFs to be edited “manually”, or drag and drop the files on which you are interested in acting on them.

At this point, click on the scissors icon located on the right and type, in the text field select the following pages (in this order) , the numbers of the pages to be kept in the output document. You can indicate a set of single pages by separating each of them with a comma (e.g. 1,2,4 to keep pages 1, 2 and 4) or a group of pages in sequence, separating the initial and final page with a dash (e.g. 1-4 to keep pages 1 to 4).

Finally, click on the Convert button, wait a few seconds for the output document to be processed and the PDF with the removed pages will be automatically saved on your PC.

Other solutions to delete PDF pages online

If you are looking for other solutions by which you can delete PDF pages online, try taking a look at the ones I have included in the list below.

• iLovePDF– Web service that allows you to edit and convert PDFs in various ways, even by deleting the pages in them. It is free, but it allows you to work on documents up to 200 MB in size and to process only one file at a time. To get around these limitations and unlock other extra functions, you need to subscribe to a paid subscription (with costs starting from 6 euros/month). As far as privacy is concerned, the documents uploaded to the service are automatically removed from the latter’s servers within hours of uploading.
• PDF Candy– is another free web service that provides users with various tools for editing PDF files. Of course, it also includes a page removal tool. Allows you to upload files with a maximum size of 500 MB. To get around this limitation and unlock other extra functions, you need to subscribe to a paid subscription (at a basic cost of 6 euros/month). Furthermore, the privacy of users is protected, as PDFs uploaded to the service’s servers are automatically deleted within a few hours.
• PDF2Go– is an additional online service for editing PDFs by removing the pages present in them, converting them, rotating them etc. It is very easy to use and allows you to upload files with a maximum size of 50 MB, but it places limitations on the maximum number of documents that can be uploaded. To deal with this, you need to create an account and/or subscribe to the paid plan (at a cost of 5.50 euros/month). User privacy, on the other hand, is protected as the uploaded contents are automatically removed from the service’s servers after a few hours.

How to delete PDF pages with Android

You don’t have a computer at hand and would like to understand how to delete PDF pages with Android? If this is the case, I inform you that you can do everything by resorting to the use of special apps. Among the many present on the square, I suggest PDF Tools. It’s free, it offers various tools to make various edits to PDF files, including the one to remove pages. Note that it has limitations regarding the functions offered, which can be circumvented by switching to the paid version (which costs 3.19 euros).

To download and install PDF Utility on your device, visit the relevant section of the Play Store and press the Install button (if you are using a device on which the Play Store is not available, you can download the app through an alternative store ). Then, start the app, selecting the relative icon that has been added on the home screen and/or in the drawer.

Now that you see the main screen of the application, define your preferences regarding the display of ads, then accept the terms of use of the service, grant the app the necessary permissions and press the Delete Page button that you find in the main screen of PDF Tools.

Then, click on the Select PDF Files button and select the document you want to act on, then fill in the field below the Page Numbers item with the number of pages you want to delete from the file.

In conclusion, tap on the button with the checkmark located at the bottom right. Then wait for the procedure to start and at the end you will find the location on your smartphone where the output document was saved at the bottom of the screen.

How to delete PDF pages on iPhone and iPad

Do you own an Apple-branded device and, therefore, would you like to understand how to proceed in this specific case? No problem, I’ll explain immediately how to delete PDF pages with iPhone and iPad! To do this, you can rely on Commands, an application owned by Apple that allows you to run scripts, then create mini-applications to automate various operations and make iOS / iPadOS interact with some of the apps installed automatically. It is pre-installed (if removed it can be downloaded from the App Store ) and its use is completely free.

To use Commands for your purpose, you must use a specific script, as in the case of the one called Extract PDF Pages. To get it, visit the relevant web page with Safari directly from your iPhone or iPad and press the Get Quick Commands and Add Untrusted Quick Command buttons.

If in carrying out the above operations a message appears indicating that the command cannot be opened because the security settings of the Commands app do not allow it, you can solve it by proceeding as follows: bearing in the Settings> Quick Commands section of iOS, move to ON the switch next to Untrusted commands, tap the Allow button and type the device unlock code.

After installing the script, you can use it to create a new PDF document by deleting the pages you are not interested in and extracting only the ones you want to keep. To do this, open the PDF to be edited using the File app (it is pre-installed, but if removed you can find it again through the appropriate section of the App Store ) or another file manager, then press the share button (the one with the square and arrow ) and select Extract PDF Pages from the menu that appears.

At this point, choose the a few pages option if you want to extrapolate single pages or the most pages option to extrapolate a set of pages, specify the number of pages to extract and tap the Finish button to finalize the procedure.

After completing the above steps, you will be shown the output PDF that you can save in any location or export it to an app, by selecting the share icon at the top right again and indicating the option you prefer from the menu that appears.

 

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