Remove blank pages from a scanned PDF
Double-sided scanning of single-sided paper leaves an empty page after every real one. The file doubles in length, looks careless when shared, and is harder to read on a phone.
Delete PDF pages removes the pages you list and keeps the rest in their original order. It works in your browser, so scanned paperwork stays on your device.
A quick way to find blank pages is to view the PDF as thumbnails in your reader; empty sheets stand out immediately. Pages that look blank but carry a faint mark, a punched-hole shadow or a page number are not really empty, so decide whether they matter before removing them. For official documents where page count is checked, keep the original alongside the cleaned version.
Step by step
- Open the scanned PDF in any viewer and note the numbers of the blank pages.
- Open Delete PDF pages and add the file.
- Enter the blank page numbers, for example 2, 4, 6, 8.
- Delete and download the cleaned PDF, then flick through it to confirm.
Tips
- Ranges work too, such as 10-12 for several empty sheets in a row.
- If the scanner also rotated some pages, fix them afterwards with Rotate PDF.
- Removing blank scanned pages also makes the file smaller.
Questions
- Does Convertora find blank pages automatically?
- No. You choose which pages to remove, so nothing is deleted that you meant to keep.
- Will the remaining pages change?
- No. They are kept exactly as they were, in the same order.
- Can I undo a deletion?
- Your original file is not changed, so you can start again from it at any time.