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PDF Page Remover Tutorial
This post answers FAQs about removing pages from PDF files, including “How do I remove pages from a PDF,” “How do I delete pages from a PDF online?” and “Is there a free PDF cutter online?”
If you’ve exported a document that has a random blank page in the middle or a page you don’t need at the end (or anywhere, really), depending on your device, you may find it difficult to remove that page. If you’ve never removed a page from a PDF and you want to learn how, this post is for you. We’ll show you two ways to cut pages from PDF files.
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In this post, we will cover how the PDF.Live editor tool allows you to manage the pages of PDFs and remove, cut out, and delete those extra pesky pages with ease. To get started, upload your PDF to PDF.Live’s online editor.
1. Using Thumbnails to Cut Pages
When you’ve dragged and dropped a PDF into the editor, you can view your PDF in the editor tool itself. We’ll be focused on the Delete Pages tool that’s found in PDF.Live’s Quick Tools bar. Selecting the delete pages tool allows you to view all the pages in your PDF as thumbnails. If you have a lot of pages in your PDF, adjust the zoom scrollbar above the pages to the left or right to change the size of the thumbnail previews of your PDF.
When you have the thumbnail viewer selected, the pages of your PDF will be displayed in a scrolling view. Within this view, you can reorder, rotate, insert, replace, extract, and delete the pages of your PDF.
To see these options, click the three dots … (three dots) next to a page in your PDF.
If you select Delete Page, you will receive a pop-up explaining that this action cannot be undone. Cutting and pasting pages in different areas of a PDF are different processes – the delete function will remove the page entirely.
If you select OK, the page will be removed from your PDF and no longer appear in the thumbnail view.
You can also select the trash can icon underneath a page to quickly remove a page from a PDF.
2. Using Left Click to Cut PDFs
With your PDF thumbnail viewer open, select the page you want to move by left-clicking it. Then, drag and drop the page somewhere else in the thumbnail viewer.
The thumbnail view will then change to reflect your changes to the PDF.
Note: If you want to move pages from one PDF to a different PDF, you will need to extract a page from the PDF. This function is covered in a separate article on extracting, splitting, and separating pages from a PDF.