A blank page after a scan, a cover sheet nobody needs, the four pages of terms at the end - most page removal is tidying. But sometimes the shorter list is the pages you want to keep, and typing three numbers beats typing forty. This tool takes either instruction, and switching between them changes nothing else.

Using it in three steps

1. 1 Drop the PDF. The page count appears so you know what you are working with.
2. 2 Choose remove or keep, then type the pages: 2 for one page, 4-9 for a run, 12- for everything from there to the end.
3. 3 Press Apply and download. The new page count tells you at a glance whether the range did what you meant.

What happens to a page you remove

It is genuinely gone from the new file, not hidden. Some editors leave a removed page in the document and simply stop showing it, which is why a "deleted" page can reappear in another reader or turn up in a text search. Here the output is built from the pages you kept, so a page that was dropped has no representation in the result at all. If the page held something confidential, that distinction is the whole point.

Removing everything is refused

A PDF with no pages is not a small PDF, it is a broken file - most readers refuse to open it at all. So a range that would take out every page stops with a message instead of handing you something unusable. The same care applies to ranges pointing past the end of the document: the tool says the range does not fit rather than silently trimming it to something you did not ask for.