Extract Pages from a PDF
Pull a few pages out of a PDF into a document of their own. Click the ones you want, or type a list, and they are copied into a new file exactly as they were. Your original is never altered and nothing is uploaded.
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The pages
Load a PDF to see its pages.
Your PDF never leaves this device.The file is opened by your browser, the extracted document is built here in the page, and the download comes from your own machine. The file you dropped in is not modified.
The pages come out in document order
Whatever order you click them in, the pages you pick are written out in the order they appear in the source document. They are copied as page objects rather than pictures, so nothing is re-encoded and the result is exactly the quality that went in. If you need a different order, reorder the extracted file afterwards.
How to use this tool
Drop a PDF on the box at the top. Every page appears as a thumbnail, and clicking one includes it. Pages you have not picked are greyed out, so what you see is the document you are about to get.
The quick choices above the pages handle the common cases: all, none, the odd ones, the even ones, or inverting whatever you have already picked.
Extracting and deleting are the same operation
Worth saying plainly, because it decides which tool saves you time.
Both tools copy a set of pages into a new document. Extract keeps the pages you pick. Delete keeps everything except the pages you pick. The result is identical either way; the only difference is how many clicks it takes to describe what you want.
On a fifty page report where you need pages 12 to 18, picking seven pages here is far quicker than marking forty three for deletion. On the same report where you want everything except a two page appendix, deleting is the shorter route.
Document order, not the order you clicked
Clicking page 9 and then page 2 gives you a document with page 2 first. The pages are written out in the order they appear in the source, not the order you selected them in.
That is the right default for the usual job, which is pulling a section out of a report intact. If you genuinely want them in a different sequence, extract first and then reorder the small file, which is far easier than trying to do both at once.
Pages are copied as page objects rather than redrawn, so text stays selectable, a drawing stays vector line work, and photographs keep the exact compression they arrived with.
A worked check you can repeat
Take a ten page document and pick pages 3 and 7. The result is a two page file containing the old pages 3 and 7 in that order, and the summary reports two pages out of ten.
Now type 9, 2, 5 instead. The result is three pages in the order 2, 5, 9, because the selection is sorted into document order before anything is copied.
Selecting nothing at all is refused, since a PDF with no pages is not a document any reader will open.
The selection logic was checked against an independent implementation before publishing: twenty four hand written cases covering ranges, odd and even, single page documents, inverted selections and every way of ending up with nothing. Then forty thousand generated cases confirming that every page is accounted for exactly once across kept and left behind, that the two sets never overlap, and that the extracted pages always come out in ascending order. A further six thousand confirmed the same behaviour in the browser copy.
Mistakes that catch people out
Expecting your click order to be preserved. It is not. Extract first, then reorder if the sequence matters.
Using this when deleting would be quicker. If you want most of the document, mark the few pages you do not want in the delete tool instead.
Forgetting that order does not matter. Clicking page 9 before page 2 still gives you page 2 first.
Expecting bookmarks to survive. They do not, and neither do form fields or internal links.
Assuming a password protected file will open. It will not. Remove the protection first, in software that has the password.
Common questions
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is opened by your browser, the extracted document is built here on the page, and the download comes from your machine. Nothing crosses the network.
Is my original file changed?
No. The pages you pick are copied into a new document and the file you dropped in is left exactly as it was.
Do the pages come out in the order I clicked them?
No, they come out in document order. Selecting 9 then 2 gives you page 2 followed by page 9. If you need a different order, reorder the extracted file afterwards.
Does extracting reduce the quality?
No. Pages are copied across as page objects rather than redrawn, so text stays searchable and images keep their original resolution.
What is the difference between this and deleting pages?
They are the same operation seen from opposite ends. Extract keeps what you pick; delete throws away what you pick. Use whichever needs fewer clicks for the document in front of you.
Will bookmarks survive?
No. Bookmarks, form fields and internal links belong to the structure of the original document rather than to individual pages, so they do not carry across.
Related PDF tools and reference
Reference: ISO 32000, the standard that defines how pages are stored in a PDF.