Extract Pages From PDF
Pull the pages you want into a new document. The original is never changed and nothing is uploaded.
Document
last means the final page.
Your extracted pages are ready
The download starts automatically. Use the button if it does not.
Runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
How to extract pages from a PDF
Open the document and every page appears as a thumbnail. Tap the ones you want and they light up; tap again to drop them. If the document is long and you already know the numbers, type them into the box instead — 1-4, 9, 15- is understood exactly as written, and the thumbnails follow along. Press Extract pages and the new file downloads.
The buttons above the grid handle the selections people make most often. Odd and Even are there for the specific job of rebuilding a document from a duplex scanner that produced the fronts and the backs in two passes.
Extract, split or remove?
The three sound similar and do different things:
- Extract takes a selection and puts it in a new document. Nothing else is produced, and the original is untouched.
- Split cuts the whole document into several files with no page left out.
- Remove is the same operation as extract, phrased the other way: you name the pages you do not want and keep the rest.
If you find yourself selecting almost every page here, the remove tool is the shorter route to the same file.
What the new document keeps
Pages are copied, not re-drawn. Text stays selectable and searchable, embedded fonts travel with the page, images keep their original resolution, and vector artwork stays vector at any zoom. A page that was rotated in the original arrives rotated the same way.
What does not travel is anything the document held rather than the page: the bookmark outline and interactive form values belong to the file as a whole, so a new file built from a handful of pages does not inherit them. Flatten a form before extracting if the filled-in values need to survive.
Typing a range
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
3 | Page three on its own |
1-5 | Pages one to five |
2, 7, 11 | Three separate pages |
12- | Page twelve to the end |
8-last | The same thing, written the other way |
all | Every page |
Pages always come out in document order. A range written backwards, such as 9-4, is read as four to nine rather than treated as an error.
Questions
Is the file uploaded when I extract pages?
No. The document is opened by your browser and the new PDF is built there. The tool has no backend, so there is no server holding a copy and nothing to delete when you are done.
How do I choose which pages to keep?
Either way you prefer. Tap the page thumbnails to turn them on and off, or type the pages into the box as 1-4, 9, 15-. The two stay in step, so typing a range lights up the matching thumbnails and tapping a thumbnail updates the box.
What is the difference between extracting and splitting?
Extracting takes the pages you choose and puts them in one new document, leaving the original untouched. Splitting cuts the whole document into several files with no page left behind. Use extract for pulling out an appendix; use split for breaking a long file into parts.
Can I get each extracted page as its own file?
Yes. Switch the output to one file per page and the selection comes back as a ZIP containing a separate single-page PDF for each page you picked, named after the original with its page number.
Does extracting change the original file?
Never. The file on your device is only read, never written. What you download is a new document; the original is exactly as it was.
Are the pages re-compressed or reduced in quality?
No. Each page is copied across with its fonts, images and vector content intact, so text stays selectable and images keep their original resolution. Nothing is rasterised.
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