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Keep just the pages you need from a document

Choose a document, tap the pages you want, and save them as a new, smaller document.

1

Choose your document

This works with PDF documents, the kind you usually get for bank statements, bills, forms and tickets.

…or drag your document and drop it here
2

Tap the pages you want to keep

Your pages will appear here once you've chosen a document. Tap a page to keep it, and tap again to change your mind.

Use a dash for a run of pages (1-3 means 1, 2 and 3) and commas between them.

3

Save your new document

It will usually go into your Downloads folder.

What's really happening? (for the curious)

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It's a type of file designed to look exactly the same on every computer, phone and printer, which is why banks, councils and shops use it for statements, bills and forms. PDF file names end in .pdf.

A PDF is made of separate pages, a bit like sheets in a ring binder. This page opens your document, shows you a small picture of each page (called a thumbnail), and when you press Save it copies the pages you chose into a brand new PDF. The pages are copied exactly as they are, so text, pictures and quality stay the same. Your original file is only read, never changed.

All of this happens inside your web browser (the program you're using to view this page, such as Chrome, Edge or Safari). The page's instructions are downloaded to your computer, and they run there. Your document is never sent anywhere, which matters for private things like bank statements.

Some PDFs are locked with a password to stop them being changed. This page can't open those. That's the lock doing its job, not a fault.

Behind the scenes this page uses two free, open-source tools: PDF.js (made by Mozilla, the Firefox people) to draw the page pictures, and pdf-lib to build your new document.