Extract pages
Keep only the pages you name.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, and you can verify that in your browser's network tab. Verify it yourself: open your browser's network tab and watch. You will see one small request asking whether you have tasks left - a tool name and a hash, never the file.
What this does
Extracting builds a new document from the pages you name, leaving the original alone. The pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so the result is identical in quality to the source.
Use it when only part of a document is relevant to someone: one signed page of a long contract, the two pages of a bank statement an application asks for, a single chapter of a manual, or the one certificate inside a bundle of scans.
How it works
- Drop the PDF onto this page.
- Type the pages you want to keep. Ranges, individual pages, odd, even and last all work.
- Choose one document containing everything you selected, or one file per page.
- Press Extract pages.
- Download the result, or take all the files as a ZIP if you chose one per page.
The order you type is the order you get. Asking for 5, 1, 3 produces a document in that sequence, not sorted back into 1, 3, 5. This is deliberate: it makes the tool useful for rebuilding a document as well as for pulling pieces out of one, and it means you rarely need a separate reordering step afterwards.
Extracting differs from splitting in what it produces. Extract gives you one document from a selection that may be scattered across the original; split cuts the original into several documents at boundaries you set. If you want three separate files, use Split PDF.
Because the pages are copied rather than re-created, a page carrying a form field, a hyperlink or an annotation keeps them. Scanned pages keep their original image data at full resolution.
Nothing is uploaded. The extraction happens in a Web Worker in your browser, which is also why a slow connection costs you nothing once the page is open.
Questions people ask
- What can I type in the page box?
- Single pages, ranges, and keywords: 4, 2-8, 10- for everything from page 10 onward, -3 for the first three, odd, even, last, and last-2 for the second from the end. Separate several with commas.
- Will the pages come out in the order I typed?
- Yes. The sequence you type is the sequence in the output, so 9, 2, 5 produces those three pages in that order. If you want them in document order, type them that way or use a range.
- Can I get each page as its own file?
- Yes, choose one file per page. Each output is named after the original with its page number appended, zero-padded so the files sort correctly, and all of them can be downloaded together as a ZIP.
- Does extracting reduce quality?
- No. Pages are copied at the object level, not re-rendered, so text remains text, images keep their original resolution and encoding, and nothing is recompressed.