{"id":9375,"date":"2019-05-18T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=9375"},"modified":"2023-07-31T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:30:01","slug":"how-to-delete-pages-from-pdf-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-pages-from-pdf-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Images or Pages from a PDF File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have numerous freeware PDF document viewers but not many freeware PDF writer tools are available. Sometimes, you may want to remove specific pages from a PDF document or remove images from a particular page in a PDF file completely to keep the file size low. Many online portals provide the PDF editing and merging features you&#8217;re looking for. But if you need an offline tool (for privacy concerns) to remove\u00a0images or delete pages from a PDF document, this article has the info you&#8217;re looking for.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>How to Delete Specific Pages or Images from a PDF File<\/h2>\n<p>Here are two options discussed. The 1st one uses a third-party freeware, and the 2nd one uses the built-in Microsoft Print to PDF writer to output selected pages to a new PDF file.<\/p>\n<h3>Method 1: Using PDF Shaper third-party freeware<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PDF Shaper<\/strong> is a full-featured PDF software, which offers a collection of PDF tools and utilities to modify and optimize your PDF documents and its content. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfshaper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">PDF Shaper<\/a> is an effective and hassle-free way to organize and prepare your PDF documents for printing or sending by email.<\/p>\n<p>The free version of PDF Shaper can do the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convert PDF to TXT<\/li>\n<li>Convert PDF to Image<\/li>\n<li>Convert Image to PDF<\/li>\n<li>Extract text from PDF from text-based or image-based PDFs (OCR)<\/li>\n<li>Extract images from PDF<\/li>\n<li>Extract pages and save them as a separate PDF file.<\/li>\n<li>Delete selected pages<\/li>\n<li>Delete images from selected or all pages<\/li>\n<li>Merge PDFs<\/li>\n<li>Split PDF files<\/li>\n<li>Rotate pages<\/li>\n<li>Crop pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Premium and Professional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfshaper.com\/compare-editions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">editions<\/a> (not an affiliate link) of this tool offer command line and other features.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To delete specific pages from a PDF file:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start PDF Shaper, click on <strong>Add<\/strong> and select the PDF file to add to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Select the PDF file, and click <strong>Delete Pages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/delete-page-pdf-file-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the pages you want to delete. You can mention page numbers or the range, or combine the two syntaxes together &#8212; eg., <code>1,2,4,5<\/code> (or) <code>1-3,8,9<\/code> &#8212;\u00a0<code>1-3,8,9<\/code> will delete pages <code>1,2,3,8,9<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/delete-page-pdf-file-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Optionally, you can edit the PDF file metadata or remove it all.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> and save the modified copy with a different file name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/delete-page-pdf-file-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s it is. The modified copy, with the two pages removed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/delete-page-pdf-file-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"76\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, you can remove images from all pages or specific pages, by clicking on the <strong>Delete Images<\/strong> link on the right-pane.<\/p>\n<h3>Method 2: Using Microsoft PDF printer or CutePDF Printer<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/reinstall-microsoft-print-to-pdf-delete-accidentally\/\">Microsoft Print to PDF<\/a> in Windows 10 outputs specified pages or all pages in a document to a PDF file.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qt\">\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have Windows 10, then you can install the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutepdf.com\/products\/cutepdf\/writer.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CutePDF Writer<\/a> program (print driver). CutePDF Writer installs itself as a &#8220;printer subsystem&#8221;. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to convert to PDF documents. It will show up in your list of Printers, like Microsoft Print to PDF.<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do is install the CutePDF Writer and the converter from that linked page.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Open the PDF file in your favorite viewer.<\/p>\n<p>From the File menu, click Print<\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Microsoft Print to PDF<\/strong> from the list of devices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/delete-page-pdf-file-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Pages: text box, type the page numbers (or range) you want to output. To exclude pages 7 &amp; 8, you&#8217;d type: <code>1-6,9-16<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> To exclude 1, 8, 9, 12 in a 16-page document, you can use either syntax\u00a0\u2192 <code>2-7,10,11,13-16<\/code> (or) <code>2-7,10-11,13,14,15,16<\/code><\/p>\n<p>In the preview, you should be able to see the resultant total number of pages that will be outputted or printed.<\/p>\n<p>Click Print and save the output to a new PDF file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have numerous freeware PDF document viewers but not many freeware PDF writer tools are available. Sometimes, you may want to remove specific pages from a PDF document or remove images from a particular page in a PDF file completely to keep the file size low. Many online portals provide the PDF editing and merging &#8230; <a title=\"How to Delete Images or Pages from a PDF File\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-pages-from-pdf-file\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Delete Images or Pages from a PDF File\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utilities","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9678,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-combine-or-merge-multiple-pdf-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":9375,"position":0},"title":"How to Merge Multiple PDF Files into One","author":"Ramesh","date":"June 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From a PDF file, you can split or extract individual pages to separate PDF files natively using the Microsoft Print to PDF printer. 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