Remove Blank Pages

Remove Blank Pages looks at every page of a PDF and measures how much ink is on it. Pages with nothing on them are marked for removal straight away, so a 60-page double-sided scan with 20 empty backs is cleaned up in seconds. Every page shows its ink as a percentage, so you can see why it was marked.

Scans are rarely pure white, so the check is built for them. The paper colour is measured from each page, so grey or yellowed paper still counts as paper. Lone specks of dust are ignored, and you can tell it to skip the page edges, where scanners leave shadows and punch holes show. Pages with only a page number, header or footer get their own “Nearly blank” marker instead of being removed silently, and a switch removes them too if you want.

You stay in charge: tap any page to keep it or remove it before saving. The new PDF is built from copies of the pages you keep, exactly as they were, and your original file is not changed. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

1. Tap “Choose a PDF” and pick your scan. Each page is checked as it appears, and blank ones are marked straight away.
2. Move the Sensitivity slider towards Relaxed if dusty blank pages are missed, or towards Strict if pages with faint content get marked.
3. Pick how much of the page edges to ignore, and tick “Also remove nearly blank pages” if pages with only a page number should go too.
4. Tap any page to change its mark. “Undo my changes” puts every page back to what the check decided.
5. Press the “Remove … pages” button (it shows how many), then “Download PDF”.

• Ink coverage shown on every page, down to thousandths of a percent.
• Scanner-friendly: works on grey or cream paper and ignores lone specks of dust.
• Ignore page edges at 2%, 4% or 8% for scanner shadows, punch holes and staples.
• Separate “Nearly blank” marker for pages with only a page number, header or footer.
• Eight sensitivity steps, from strict to relaxed, with the exact limit shown.
• Tap any page to keep or remove it; your choices survive slider changes.
• Kept pages are copied unchanged, so text, links and quality stay as they were.
• Runs in your browser with no upload, sign-up or watermark.

• A blank page usually reads 0% or a few thousandths of a percent; a page of text reads several percent.
• If a page that looks blank isn’t marked, look at its ink figure and move the slider just past it.
• A page with print showing through from the other side can read as content: move the slider towards Relaxed or tap it by hand.
• Keep the original until you have checked the new file, especially for contracts and forms.