Extract Pages
Extract chosen pages into a separate document.
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Upload one PDF, enter the pages or ranges to keep, and download a new PDF containing only those selected pages for download.
Usage notes
Available- One source PDF per request
- Comma-separated pages or ranges
- Maximum 25 MB source file
- Selected pages stay in the requested order
Pull only the pages you need into a brand new PDF
Extract Pages is the companion to Remove Pages — same underlying operation, inverted selection. Instead of marking the pages you want gone, you mark the pages you want to keep. Everything else is left behind. The result is a new, standalone PDF containing only your selection, with its own sequential numbering and a clean structure ready to share.
The most common extraction is a single chapter pulled out of a long report, but the tool is equally good for smaller jobs: grabbing a single signed page, pulling the cover and the summary for a preview, or isolating the two pages you actually need to send to a colleague who doesn't need the other 298. The extracted PDF is independent — it doesn't link back to the source, and it inherits only the bookmarks and metadata relevant to the pages you kept.
Under the hood, extraction preserves original fidelity. Text stays real text (selectable, searchable, screen-reader friendly). Images stay at the resolution they were embedded at — nothing is downsampled. Fonts are subsetted so the output stays compact without swapping typefaces. If your source is a born-digital PDF, the extracted pages are visually indistinguishable from the originals. If your source is a scan, the page images pass through at their original DPI.
How to extract pages from a PDF
- Decide what you need
Be specific about the selection before uploading. 'The first ten pages' is ambiguous on long documents — 'pages 1 through 10' is unambiguous and faster to click.
- Upload the PDF
Drop the source file into the upload area. Every page renders as a thumbnail in the workspace so you can pick visually rather than by number alone.
- Tap the pages you want to keep
Each click marks a page as 'include.' For continuous ranges, click the first thumbnail, hold shift, and click the last. For scattered pages, click each one individually.
- Choose single-file or split output
By default, all selected pages join one new PDF. If you prefer one PDF per selected page, switch the output mode to split — useful when extracting a signature page from each of several contracts in one pass.
- Run and download
Start the extraction, then download the new PDF (or the ZIP of multiple PDFs if you picked split mode). Open the output and confirm the selected pages are in the correct order.
Common use cases
- Isolate a single chapter
Pull a chapter out of a textbook or report to share with someone who only needs that section, without forwarding the full document.
- Grab a signed signature page
Extract the signature page from a completed contract to archive it alongside your records system, while keeping the full agreement elsewhere.
- Build a preview from a long document
Combine the cover, table of contents, and executive summary into a short preview for external sharing.
- Re-purpose a few key pages
Pull the page or two you actually need from a long source and re-use them in a follow-up document without carrying the weight of the original.
Privacy & security
Every extraction job runs on an isolated worker. The tool reads only the page structure required to rebuild the output PDF; page contents are passed through without being indexed, transcribed, or retained. The uploaded source and every generated extract are removed from our servers shortly after your download completes. If the pages you are extracting contain personal or confidential data, download promptly and clean up any local temporary copies that shouldn't persist.
Frequently asked questions
How is Extract Pages different from Remove Pages?
They're the same operation with inverted selection. Extract marks the pages you keep; Remove marks the pages you drop. Use Extract when you want a small subset of the document; use Remove when you want most of the document minus a few pages.
Can I extract multiple separate ranges at once?
Yes. Click each range separately — hold shift to select contiguous runs. All selected pages merge into a single output PDF (or separate PDFs if you switch to split mode).
Does the extracted PDF keep the original quality?
Yes. Text remains real text, images pass through at their embedded resolution, and fonts are subsetted without changing the typeface. Extraction is lossless for the pages you pick.
Can I extract one page at a time into separate files?
Yes. Switch the output mode to 'split' and each selected page becomes its own PDF, delivered as a ZIP archive with one file per page.
Will the extracted file include bookmarks and links?
Bookmarks that point to pages you included are preserved. Links pointing to pages left behind are cleaned up so the output doesn't contain dangling references.
Are the uploaded and extracted files deleted?
Yes. Both are removed shortly after your download completes. We retain only an anonymous job identifier.