Remove blank pages
Find and drop blank backs from a scan — by measuring ink coverage.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Once the file is in, the pages that will go are shown as thumbnails before you run it.
- Light scans marked as blank? Lower the ink threshold; pages with real text are always kept.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Next, run OCR PDF → Compress PDF on the result back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add a scan that has blank pages in it — the back of every single-sided sheet, separator pages, the blanks a document feeder produces automatically.
Set it up the way you want
Nothing to configure. Each page is examined for meaningful content, so a page holding only a faint scanner speck still counts as blank.
Download the result
Download the result and check the page count. A hundred-page duplex scan of single-sided originals usually comes back as fifty.
Questions about Remove blank pages
- What counts as blank?
- A page with no meaningful content. Scanner noise, dust specks and faint edge shadows do not save a page from being dropped, because a page that is technically not empty is still empty to a reader.
- Could it delete a page I wanted?
- A page with real content will not be removed. But check the page count before sending the result on — a deliberately blank page, like a section divider in a printed report, will go too, and only you know it was meant to be there.
- Why do scans have so many blank pages?
- Because document feeders usually scan both sides. Feed fifty single-sided sheets and you get a hundred pages, half of them empty. That is the case this tool exists for.