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Extract Pages From PDF

Pull the pages you actually need out of a long PDF. See every page as a thumbnail, tick the ones you want, and get them back as one new document or as separate files.

Your PDF?Pages are rendered here on your device to make thumbnails. The file is never uploaded. Password-protected PDFs need unlocking first.

Click a page to select it. Rotation is applied to the page you rotate, whether it is selected or not.

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Your original file is never changed.

Everything happens on this device. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

How to extract pages from a PDF

No page cap, no watermark, no account.

1

Drop the PDF

Every page appears as a numbered thumbnail, so you are picking by sight rather than guessing at ranges.

2

Tick what you want

Click pages individually, or shift-click to take a run of them. The count updates as you go.

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Extract

Get one PDF containing your selection, or split each page into its own file. Originals are untouched.

Extract, split, delete: three jobs people confuse

These three sound interchangeable and produce completely different results, which is why so many people end up doing the job twice.

Extract gathers the pages you chose into one new document and leaves the original alone. This is the one you want when a fifty-page report contains a five-page appendix that needs to go to the finance team — they get a five-page PDF, in order, and nobody has to scroll past the rest.

Split gives you a separate file per selected page. Use it when each page has a different destination: one invoice per supplier, one certificate per person, one form per case file. Anything over a single page comes back as a zip.

Delete is the inverse of extract. When you want almost everything, ticking the two pages to remove is far faster than ticking the forty-eight to keep, and the result is a copy of the original minus those pages.

All three copy pages rather than re-render them, so text stays real text and stays searchable. That matters more than it sounds: printing to PDF, which is what people reach for when they cannot find a proper tool, flattens the page to an image and destroys the text layer for good.

Questions

How do I extract pages from a PDF?
Drop the file above, tick the pages you want, then press Extract. You get a new PDF containing only those pages, in the order they appeared. The original file on your disk is never modified.
What is the difference between extract and split?
Extract gathers your chosen pages into one new document. Split gives you a separate file for every selected page. Use extract to pull a five-page appendix out of a report, and split when each page needs to go to a different person.
How do I extract one page from a PDF?
Tick that single page and extract. The result is a one-page PDF named after the original, so the two are easy to tell apart in a downloads folder.
Can I extract pages without Acrobat?
Yes. This runs on pdf-lib inside the browser tab, so there is no software to buy or install. Acrobat is not needed for extracting, splitting, deleting or rotating pages.
Are the extracted pages still selectable text?
Yes. Pages are copied as they are, so text stays text and stays searchable. Nothing is flattened to an image, unlike printing to PDF, which destroys the text layer.
Is there a page limit?
No. No page cap, no file size cap and no watermark. The practical ceiling is your device memory, because the work is local rather than on a server.

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