C#/VB.NET: Delete Pages from PDF

A PDF document can contain multiple pages with different text content, images, or other objects. Occasionally, users may need to delete certain pages with incorrectly drawn objects or pages that are irrelevant to the topic of the document. This article will demonstrate how to programmatically delete/remove pages from an existing PDF document using Spire.PDF for .NET.

Install Spire.PDF for .NET

To begin with, you need to add the DLL files included in the Spire.PDF for.NET package as references in your .NET project. The DLLs files can be either downloaded from this link or installed via NuGet.

PM> Install-Package Spire.PDF

Delete/Remove Pages from PDF

• Create a PdfDocument object.
• Load a sample PDF document using PdfDocument.LoadFromFile() method.
• Get the pages in the PDF document using PdfDocument.Pages property.
• Delete a specified page by index using PdfPageCollection.RemoveAt(int index)method.
• Save the document to another file using PdfDocument.SaveToFile() method.

using Spire.Pdf;

namespace RemovePage
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Create a PdfDocument object
            PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();

            //Load a sample PDF document
            document.LoadFromFile(@"E:\Files\input.pdf");

            //Remove the second page
            document.Pages.RemoveAt(1);

            //Save the result document
            document.SaveToFile("RemovePDFPage.pdf");
        }
    }
}

Imports Spire.Pdf

Namespace RemovePage
    Class Program
        Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            'Create a PdfDocument object
            Dim document As PdfDocument = New PdfDocument()

            'Load a sample PDF document
            document.LoadFromFile("E:\Files\input.pdf")

            'Remove the second page
            document.Pages.RemoveAt(1)

            'Save the result document
            document.SaveToFile("RemovePDFPage.pdf")
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

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