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Hi, I want to know if there is an option in Adobe Acrobat to delete automatically blank pages from a scan. Or if I need other program to do it. [Tags removed by moderator]
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Hi,
Acrobat doesn't have the option to remove blank pages. You can do it manually from Organize pages.
You have to select all blank pages and delete.
Thanks.
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I have to ask.
If you are scanning a document of some type and creating a PDF out of the scans why are there blank pages.
Simple don't scan blanks sheets of paper.
As to your question. Not that I know of.
And if you are asking about the Acrobat Reader program then definitely not.
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Because I scan like 100 paper per scan and some of those pages have many blank pages, so if I do it manually is to much time doing it.
I actually use Adobe Acrobat XI Standard. With another program do you know if this could be available?
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Not sure if it can be done automatically but yes Acrobat XI will allow you to edit out the blank pages. Which you probably already knew.
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Hi,
Acrobat doesn't have the option to remove blank pages. You can do it manually from Organize pages.
You have to select all blank pages and delete.
Thanks.
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Sorry to revive this older post, it is worth clarifying this point.
If pages have been scanned in that are blank, then I agree. However, if the pages are empty of content (or filled with white or [none]) then there is a feature to remove empty pages, but it is hidden in the preflight portion of the print production tools:
To be fair though, the page does have to be empty, so if there's a scan of a blank page, that doesn't count as blank, as there is still content there in the form of a scan. However, when I tested this prior to submitting this post, my test file also contained specific pages that had nothing but [paper] coloured text, [none] coloured text; and text coloured C0 M0 Y0 K0 from InDesign, and when the preflight had run, those pages had been removed.
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It's also possible to remove pages that don't have any text on them using a script. It can't know if they have images on them, though, so that might not be suitable for scanned documents, unless you first run the Recognize Text command on them.
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I'm wondering why my Preflight screen looks so different from yours. And mine has no "Remove empty pages."
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Great Question; love to see any variation of remove blank pages preflight--
Evan Jones
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don't mean to revive something old, but I ran into this first time too - it's under the third preflight page, with the wrench.
The option works on most pages, but not all. I find that randomly I need to still get in and manually select about 5% of the blanks that weren't removed.
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You need to click the spanner icon, 3rd button right of the show all dropdown
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Oops read all first
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This worked!!! Thank you SO MUCH!!! 🙂
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This is terrible for such a massive program. Why not? I have documents that print to pdf and blank pages are being inserted automatically. This is ridiculous problem to have.
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Yeah I cannot fathom why this doesn’t exist either. I’ve got some scans that need to be duplex scanned (documents with text and info on both sides of a piece of paper) and would love to have duplex set up as a default selection, and an auto recognition of blank pages with no text when the scanned documents only are only printed single sided.
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My scanner has a "remove blank pages" option that works well. I scan 100% of the time in duplex mode and the scanner removes the blank pages and keeps each side when there is text present.
Having said that, I really would like a feature within Acrobat to remove blank pages. It is aggrevating as I receive documents from clients all the time with blank pages I have to remove in processing.
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may i ask the brand and model please?
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may i ask the brand and model please?
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Which version deletes the blank pages? I have to scan double sided and need to delete the blank pages that I don't need.
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In Adobe Acrobat DC you can delete empty pages.
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Thank you so much
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In Acrobat DC Pro, I don't see a setting to automatically delete/remove blank/empty pages.
Where is the setting? Edit>Preferences>???
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Hi Evan,
Adobe Acrobat doesn't delete the blank pages automatically. You have to get it done manually.
Acrobat>Tools>Organize Pages>select and Delete is the option that would help.
There's no such preferences that can be changed to achieve this automatically. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/delete-pages-from-pdf.html
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks,
Akanchha
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Hi,
If you are Adobe Employee, then can you suggest to your supervisor that why don't we make a preference that automatically removes blank pages?
Thanks a million in advance.
Best regards,
Ron