How to extract pages from a PDF
- Drop your PDF onto the box above, or press Browse files to select it.
- Type the pages you want to keep, single numbers, ranges, or a mixture of both.
- Press Extract pages and wait for the document to build.
- Check the note beside the result, which confirms how many pages were kept.
- Download the new document. Your original file is untouched.
What this extractor does
- Accepts single pages, ranges and open-ended ranges in one expression.
- Produces a single document rather than one file per page.
- Keeps pages in ascending order and removes any duplicates you accidentally list.
- Copies pages losslessly, so text remains selectable and images are not re-compressed.
- Leaves the original file completely unmodified on your device.
- Tells you the document's real page count if your range matches nothing.
Sending four pages instead of eighty
Long documents are rarely read in full. A supplier's catalogue contains the two products you actually order. A tenancy agreement runs to forty pages of which the landlord needs the signed page. A textbook chapter is nine pages inside a five-hundred-page scan. Sending the whole thing wastes everyone's time and, in plenty of cases, shares more than it should.
Extraction produces a clean, standalone document containing only what you meant to share. Because the pages are copied rather than re-rendered, the result is indistinguishable from the original in quality. The text is still selectable, the fonts are still embedded, and the images are byte-for-byte the same.
Extract, delete or split?
- Extract when you know which pages you want to keep and they belong in one file.
- Delete when you want almost everything and only a few pages need to go, the page deleter is the shorter route.
- Split when you need several separate documents rather than one, the splitter handles that.
The three overlap, and the right choice is simply whichever needs less typing. Keeping pages 3 to 7 of a hundred-page file is an extraction; removing page 51 from the same file is a deletion.
How to write the page list
Commas separate entries and dashes make ranges, so 1-3, 7, 10- keeps pages one, two, three, seven, and everything from ten to the end. Order does not matter when you type it, pages always come out in their original sequence, and listing the same page twice is harmless, since duplicates are removed.
Numbers refer to positions in the file, starting at one. That is not always the number printed on the page: a report with a cover and two pages of roman-numeral front matter has its "page 1" at position four. Open the document and count if you are unsure, or extract a generous range and trim it afterwards.
Redaction is a different job
It is worth being explicit about this, because people reach for extraction hoping it will hide something. Removing a page removes everything on that page, which is genuine. But if the information you are hiding also appears on a page you are keeping, it is still there, and extraction does nothing about text hidden under a black rectangle drawn in a PDF reader, which remains fully selectable underneath.
For content that must not travel, the reliable approach is to remove the pages entirely, or to rasterise the document so the text layer no longer exists. Exporting through PDF to JPG and rebuilding with JPG to PDF achieves that, at the cost of searchability.
What the new file carries
The extracted document is a proper PDF with its own page tree. Bookmarks and attachments from the original are not carried over, since they belong to the source document, and internal links pointing at pages you left behind will no longer resolve. Printed page numbers stay as they were, because they are drawn onto the page, renumber with the page numbering tool if the new document needs to start at one.
Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and your original file stays exactly as it was.