Delete blank pages

[karinamnreal]

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]

Thanks!!

[Just Shoot Me]

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.

[karinamnreal]

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?

[Just Shoot Me]

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.

[Lovekesh Garg · Accepted solution]

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.

[Colin Flashman]

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.

[try67]

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.

[mbmast]

I'm wondering why my Preflight screen looks so different from yours.  And mine has no "Remove empty pages."

[EvanJonesMdR]

Great Question; love to see any variation of remove blank pages preflight--
Evan Jones

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[johns74710306]

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.

[DaveThomas]

You need to click the spanner icon, 3rd button right of the show all dropdown

[DaveThomas]

Oops read all first

[E Fitz]

This worked!!!  Thank you SO MUCH!!!  🙂  

[nichkgillis]

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.

[EvanJonesMdR]

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.

[simply another way]

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.

[tralex]

may i ask the brand and model please?

[tralex]

may i ask the brand and model please?

[Nina5F98]

Which version deletes the blank pages? I have to scan double sided and need to delete the blank pages that I don't need. 

[Bernd Alheit]

In Adobe Acrobat DC you can delete empty pages.

[Nina5F98]

Thank you so much

[EvanJonesMdR]

In Acrobat DC Pro, I don't see a setting to automatically delete/remove blank/empty pages.

Where is the setting?  Edit>Preferences>???

[AkanchhaS]

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  

[hwi mokj28377158]

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