Remove one or more pages from a PDF document using a page deletion API built for automated document workflows. Ideal for packet cleanup, document preparation, compliance workflows, and removing cover sheets or unwanted appendices before delivery.
Delete specific pages or page ranges from a PDF while preserving the rest of the document. Useful for removing separators, blank pages, outdated sections, and unwanted attachments.
Use REST, Postman, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate page deletion inside larger DWS workflows for redaction prep, packet cleanup, export normalization, and archive-ready document output.
Select a package that suits your needs according to the number of credits you wish to spend. Each API tool and action has a specific credit cost.
This example takes the first three pages, skips the fourth one, and then appends the rest, effectively deleting page four.
Try it out in three steps
document.pdf to your project folder.result.pdf to see the output.curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ -F document=@document.pdf \ -F instructions='{ "parts": [ { "file": "document", "pages": { "end": 2 } }, { "file": "document", "pages": { "start": 4 } } ] }'curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ -F document=@document.pdf ^ -F instructions="{\"parts\": [{\"file\": \"document\", \"pages\": {\"end\": 2}}, {\"file\": \"document\", \"pages\": {\"start\": 4}}]}"package com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder() .setType(MultipartBody.FORM) .addFormDataPart( "document", "document.pdf", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("application/pdf"), new File("document.pdf") ) ) .addFormDataPart( "instructions", new JSONObject() .put("parts", new JSONArray() .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "document") .put("pages", new JSONObject() .put("end", 2) ) ) .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "document") .put("pages", new JSONObject() .put("start", 4) ) ) ).toString() ) .build();
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/build") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.pdf"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/build");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("document", "document.pdf") .AddParameter("instructions", new JsonObject { ["parts"] = new JsonArray { new JsonObject { ["file"] = "document", ["pages"] = new JsonObject { ["end"] = 2 } }, new JsonObject { ["file"] = "document", ["pages"] = new JsonObject { ["start"] = 4 } } } }.ToString());
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const formData = new FormData()formData.append('instructions', JSON.stringify({ parts: [ { file: "document", pages: { end: 2 } }, { file: "document", pages: { start: 4 } } ]}))formData.append('document', fs.createReadStream('document.pdf'))
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/build', formData, { headers: formData.getHeaders({ 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }), responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.pdf")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, files = { 'document': open('document.pdf', 'rb') }, data = { 'instructions': json.dumps({ 'parts': [ { 'file': 'document', 'pages': { 'end': 2 } }, { 'file': 'document', 'pages': { 'start': 4 } } ] }) }, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.pdf', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array( 'instructions' => '{ "parts": [ { "file": "document", "pages": { "end": 2 } }, { "file": "document", "pages": { "start": 4 } } ] }', 'document' => new CURLFILE('document.pdf') ), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/build HTTP/1.1Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--customboundaryAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="instructions"Content-Type: application/json
{ "parts": [ { "file": "document", "pages": { "end": 2 } }, { "file": "document", "pages": { "start": 4 } } ]}--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="document"; filename="document.pdf"Content-Type: application/pdf
(document data)--customboundary--Implementation options
Teams evaluating delete-page workflows usually need to confirm both the page-range behavior and the easiest integration path. Nutrient supports REST, Postman, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, and raw HTTP so developers can test page deletion with real PDFs before connecting it to packet cleanup, compliance processing, or archive-ready document workflows. Continue to split PDF if the workflow needs to separate documents rather than remove pages, getting started for API key setup, the Postman collection for the fastest first request, Processor API pricing for credits, or the Processor API overview for broader DWS evaluation of page cleanup and document preparation workflows.
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