Extract PDF Pages

How to extract pages from a PDF

1. Drop a PDF file on the drop zone, or click it to choose one. The tool shows the file name, number of pages and size, and a thumbnail of every page.
2. Choose the pages to keep, in either of two ways: - tick the pages under Pages (use Select all or Select none to go faster); the field above updates as you click; - or type them in Pages to extract, for example 1-3, 5, 8-. The thumbnails follow what you type.
3. Click Extract pages. The tool creates a new PDF that contains only those pages and tells you its number of pages and size.
4. Click Download to save it. The name reflects the pages you kept, such as report_pages-1-3-5.pdf.

Choosing and ordering pages

The Pages to extract field accepts page numbers and ranges separated by commas. 4 is a single page, 2-6 is a range, 8- runs from page 8 to the end of the document, and -3 covers pages 1 to 3.

Pages are saved in the order you type them. That makes extraction a quick way to reorder a document too: 3, 1-2 produces a PDF that starts with page 3, followed by pages 1 and 2. If a page appears twice, for example in 1-5, 3, it is kept only once, at its first position.

Ticking thumbnails always rewrites the field in normal page order, so if you want a custom order, type it last, just before you click Extract pages.

When an entry can’t be used, the tool explains why instead of producing an unexpected file: a letter or a typo, a page 0, a range written backwards such as 7-4, or a page beyond the end of the document (the message tells you where the document ends).

Extract or split?

Extraction creates one new PDF from the pages you pick. If you need several files instead, for example one per chapter or one per page, use the Split PDF tool. To assemble pages from several documents, use Merge PDF, which also lets you keep only some pages of each file.

Quality and limits

The selected pages are copied as they are, without being rasterized or recompressed. Text stays searchable and selectable, images keep their resolution, and links and comments on those pages come along. The document outline (bookmarks) and interactive form fields are not rebuilt in the new file.

Encrypted or password-protected PDFs, including files that open freely but forbid editing, can’t be processed: the tool tells you so, and you can remove the protection first. Thumbnails of very long documents are drawn only as you scroll, so even files with hundreds of pages open quickly.

Privacy

Your PDF never leaves your device. It is opened, previewed and rewritten in your browser, and the new file is saved straight to your computer or phone. Nothing is uploaded, logged or kept.