About Extract PDF Pages
Extracting copies a selection of pages into a fresh PDF and leaves the source document alone. You choose from a grid of page thumbnails, so you can spot the signature page or the chart you are after instead of guessing at page numbers. When the selection is ready, decide what to save:
- One new PDF holding all the selected pages, in the order they appear in the original.
- Separate PDFs, one for each selected page, downloaded together as a ZIP.
The pages are copied, not re-created. Text remains real text, vector drawings stay crisp and scanned images keep their resolution, so an extracted page prints exactly as it did inside the full document.
Building the selection
Click a thumbnail to add that page to the selection, and click again to drop it. The ranges box accepts typed numbers such as 3, 10-14, which helps when the pages you want are far apart in a long file. Quick buttons select every page, clear the selection, or pick only the odd or only the even pages; combine them with clicks to fine-tune, for example selecting all odd pages and then clicking off the cover.
How to use Extract PDF Pages
- Add your PDFOpen the source PDF with the file picker or drop it on the tool. The grid shows a small preview of each page so you can see what you are choosing.
- Select the pages you needClick the thumbnails you want, or enter ranges such as 3, 10-14. The all, none, odd and even buttons handle larger selections in one step.
- Save one file or separate filesSave the selection as a single new PDF, or as one PDF per page. Several files arrive together in a ZIP, and the original document is not modified.
When people use it
Sending only the pages someone asked for
Your landlord wants the summary on page 1 and the signature on page 14 of a 30-page lease. Select those two, save one PDF, and attach a small file instead of the whole lease.
Filing receipts one at a time
An expense app wants one file per receipt, but the scanner put twelve receipts into one PDF. Select all twelve pages, choose separate PDFs, and each receipt becomes its own file inside the ZIP.
Keeping the charts from a long report
From a 100-page annual report you might only need the charts on pages 22, 23 and 47. Extract them into one PDF to use as a reference sheet or a meeting handout.
Extract PDF Pages or Split PDF: which fits the job
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| To see the pages before choosing them | Extract PDF Pages, with its thumbnail grid |
| A few chosen pages in one file, in their original order | Extract PDF Pages, saved as one PDF |
Chosen pages in a custom order you type, like 9, 2, 5 | Split PDF in Extract pages mode, which follows the typed order |
| Several files, each holding a range such as chapter by chapter | Split PDF in By ranges mode |
| Every page as its own file | Split PDF in Every page mode |
To drop the extracted pages into another document, or to combine extracts from several PDFs, follow up with Merge PDF.
Size and contents of the extracted file
A new file carries only the selected pages plus the fonts and images those pages draw on, so a few pages pulled from a big document usually make a much smaller PDF. Saving separate PDFs works differently: each file needs its own copy of any font or image the pages share, so the ZIP can end up bigger than you might expect, sometimes bigger than the original.
Some document-wide extras don’t come along. Bookmarks are not included, fillable form fields may stop working, the title and author properties may be blank, and a link that pointed to a page you left behind has nowhere to go.
Limits and better-suited tools
- Order follows the original. The new file lists pages as they appear in the source. To change the sequence afterwards, open the result in Rearrange PDF.
- Whole pages only. You can’t cut out half a page or lift a single table. To save pages as pictures, use PDF to JPG; to copy the words, use PDF to Text.
- Locked files. If the PDF asks for a password, run it through Unlock PDF first; you’ll need to know the password.
- Memory. Thumbnails and page data live in your browser while you work, so a huge PDF is easier to handle on a computer than on a phone.
Where your pages are processed
All of the copying happens on your own device, in this browser tab. The source PDF and the extracted files are never uploaded anywhere, and you can confirm that with the steps on our privacy page. It costs nothing, there is no sign-up, and no watermark is added to the pages.