Extract PDF Pages

This page is the PDF splitter with its mode already set to extracting a range and the page box prefilled with 1-3. Change the pages to whatever you need.

1. Drop your PDF onto the box, paste it, or click to choose the file. One PDF is handled at a time.
2. Leave Mode on Extract a page range into one PDF. The other choice, Every page as a separate PDF, is for splitting a whole file apart.
3. In Pages (e.g. 1-3, 7, 10-12), replace the 1-3 with your own pages. Separate single pages and ranges with commas.
4. Press Extract pages. The result line tells you how many pages were kept out of how many, and the new file size.
5. Press Download. The new file is named after the original with the page list added, so report.pdf with pages 1-3 becomes report-pages-1-3.pdf.

The page box is more flexible than it looks, and knowing the rules avoids surprises. Take a 15 page report and type 1-3, 7, 10-12. The tool keeps pages 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11 and 12, which makes a new PDF of 7 pages. Spaces do not matter.

• Order follows what you type. Entering 12, 3 puts page 12 first and page 3 second in the new file.
• Repeats are dropped. A page named twice, or covered by two overlapping ranges, appears once.
• A backward range is turned around. Typing 5-3 is read as 3-5, in normal order. If you want pages in reverse order, list them one by one.
• Out-of-range pages are skipped. On the 15 page file, 1-3, 20 keeps pages 1 to 3 and the result line says page 20 was ignored because the file has 15 pages.
• Anything unreadable is ignored. If nothing valid remains, the tool asks you for a range such as 1-3, 7.

Page numbers refer to the position in the file, counting from 1, not to the numbers printed on the pages. A report with a cover and roman numeral preface may show page 1 of the content as position 5, so check the position in your PDF viewer first.

The pages are copied across with a PDF library, not redrawn as pictures. That means text stays real text, so it can still be selected and searched, and vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom. Nothing is rendered to images, which is also why the job finishes quickly even for long documents.

Three honest caveats apply. First, the new file can be larger than you expect from a simple share of pages, because a page may carry fonts and images that it needs. Second, document-level extras such as bookmarks or a clickable table of contents may not come along, so do not rely on them in the extract. Third, a password-protected PDF is refused with a message asking you to remove the password first.

If the result is still heavy, extract only the pages you need. If a scanned page is sideways, correct it afterward with Rotate PDF. Because the work happens in your browser, the file is never uploaded, which is helpful for contracts, medical letters and statements.

Extracting is the right move when you know which pages you want to keep. Examples: one chapter from a long manual, the signature page of a contract, three invoices out of a monthly bundle, or the answer sheet from an exam pack.

Sometimes the reverse question is easier. If you want everything except a few pages, use Delete PDF Pages, where you name the pages to remove, instead of listing nearly the whole file here. To split an entire document into one file per page, switch the mode to Every page as a separate PDF on the Split PDF page. Once you have your extracts, Merge PDF joins several of them into one document, and Reorder PDF Pages changes the sequence of a file that already exists.

The original PDF is only read, never altered, so you can run the tool again with a different list as often as you like.