Remove blank pages from PDF — offline & private

Scan the whole document and automatically prune empty or near-empty pages — perfect for cleaning up scans, faxes, and printouts with stray blanks. Detection runs locally in your browser with pdf-lib, so your file never leaves your device.

How to Remove blank pages from PDF — offline & private

1. Step 1. Upload your PDF (it stays on your device).
2. Step 2. Optionally adjust the minimum text characters for a page to count as "non-blank".
3. Step 3. Click Execute — the scan and strip run locally in your browser.
4. Step 4. Download the cleaned PDF.

Frequently asked questions

How does blank page detection work?

Each page is scanned for text content; pages with less text than your threshold (default 5) and no images are removed. Uncertain pages are always kept.

Will it remove pages that only contain a letterhead image?

No — pages with image content are preserved. Only text-empty, image-empty pages are dropped.

Is my file uploaded to a server when stripping blanks?

No. Detection is 100% offline — the PDF is processed in your browser memory and never sent anywhere. Encrypted files are skipped with a warning.

Why is there a text threshold setting?

It lets you catch "almost blank" pages, like those containing only a single stray character from OCR noise. Raise it to be more aggressive.