diff --git a/src/api/form/PDFForm.ts b/src/api/form/PDFForm.ts
index e92c833fc..682247090 100644
--- a/src/api/form/PDFForm.ts
+++ b/src/api/form/PDFForm.ts
@@ -548,6 +548,9 @@ export default class PDFForm {
       for (let j = 0, lenWidgets = widgets.length; j < lenWidgets; j++) {
         const widget = widgets[j];
         const page = this.findWidgetPage(widget);
+        if (page === undefined) {
+          continue;
+        }
         const widgetRef = this.findWidgetAppearanceRef(field, widget);
 
         const xObjectKey = page.node.newXObject('FlatWidget', widgetRef);
@@ -587,6 +590,10 @@ export default class PDFForm {
       const widgetRef = this.findWidgetAppearanceRef(field, widget);
 
       const page = this.findWidgetPage(widget);
+      if (page === undefined) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
       pages.add(page);
 
       page.node.removeAnnot(widgetRef);
@@ -698,7 +705,7 @@ export default class PDFForm {
     return this.defaultFontCache.access();
   }
 
-  private findWidgetPage(widget: PDFWidgetAnnotation): PDFPage {
+  private findWidgetPage(widget: PDFWidgetAnnotation): PDFPage | undefined {
     const pageRef = widget.P();
     let page = this.doc.getPages().find((x) => x.ref === pageRef);
     if (page === undefined) {
@@ -709,8 +716,13 @@ export default class PDFForm {
 
       page = this.doc.findPageForAnnotationRef(widgetRef);
 
+      /*
+       * In some broken PDF's there may be widgets that don't exist on any page.
+       * We used to throw an error in such cases but it appears that other
+       * PDF readers just ignore such PDF's.
+       */
       if (page === undefined) {
-        throw new Error(`Could not find page for PDFRef ${widgetRef}`);
+        return undefined;
       }
     }