Extract Pages from PDF
Pick the pages you need, together or scattered through the document, and save them as one new PDF.
Your accountant asked for March’s receipts. They are pages 23 to 31 of a 240-page scan of the whole year, and sending everything means a heavy attachment plus eleven months of other paperwork nobody asked to see. The fix is to extract pages from the PDF: copy the nine you need into a file of their own. Open the scan here and it appears as thumbnails; click the pages, or just type 23-31, and press “Extract pages.” The original stays as it is, and the copying happens in your browser, so the file isn’t uploaded anywhere.
Quick Answer
To extract pages from a PDF online for free, open the file, click the pages you want or type their numbers (for example 23-31), and press “Extract pages.” You get one new PDF with just those pages, in the order they appear in the original. Your original file isn’t changed.
How to Extract Pages from a PDF
Add the PDF
Drop it on the page or choose it from your device. Every page appears as a thumbnail, and a password-protected file asks for its password first.
Choose the Pages
Click each page you want. A chosen page gets a green outline and a tick. Shift-click to pick a whole stretch, or type numbers such as 3, 7-9, 14 and the thumbnails follow. “Odd pages” and “Even pages” pick every other page, and the eye button opens a large preview where you can choose the page too.
Extract and Download
Press “Extract pages,” then download the new file. It’s named after your original with “_extracted” added. Change the name part in Advanced options whenever you like, even after the file is ready.
Key Feature
Exactly the Pages You Choose
Click, Shift-click a stretch, or type numbers; the thumbnails and the number box update each other, and a counter shows how many pages are selected out of the total. Odd pages and Even pages replace your current choice, and Clear selection starts over.
Original Order, Every Page Once
The new file lists pages in the order they appear in the original, whatever order you clicked or typed them. A page chosen twice appears once.
Look Before You Pull
The enlarged preview has Previous and Next buttons, arrow-key navigation and a swipe on touch screens, plus a button to choose the page you’re viewing. In PDFs of more than 300 pages, thumbnails load as you scroll.
Page Numbers in Your Own Digits
Arabic-Indic, Persian and Urdu, Devanagari, Bengali and full-width digits are understood, along with Arabic and Chinese-style commas and different kinds of dash.
Built for Large Files and Small Screens
A Cancel button while it works, a warning before very large files, a compact phone layout and a dark mode.
Private by Design
The pages are copied inside your browser, so the file isn’t uploaded. The PDF libraries are fetched from the internet when the page loads, and the tool remembers nothing between visits.
What Is a PDF Page Extractor?
A PDF page extractor copies the pages you pick out of a PDF into a new file. It works on whole pages: it doesn’t crop, edit or read what is written on them. Because it only copies, your original keeps every one of its pages, so you can run the tool again with a different selection as often as you like. The result is always a single PDF, however many separate stretches of pages you choose.
When Would You Use This?
A contract is being signed in counterparts, and each signer needs only the signature page. Extract it once and send that single page.
Your scan of a whole folder holds an ID, a degree certificate and bank letters, but an online form wants only the certificate. Pick its page and use that file instead of the folder.
A grant portal asks for the financial summary of a 200-page annual report. Preview pages to find where the section starts and ends, then extract that range.
Your printer can’t print on both sides. Extract the odd pages into one file and the even pages into another, and print them in two passes. Pages stay in their original order, so test the order with a sheet first.
Frequently Asked Questions
In what order do the extracted pages come out?
In the order they appear in the original document. It makes no difference whether you clicked page 9 before page 2 or typed 9, 2: the new file still starts with page 2. A page chosen twice is included once.
How do I extract one page, or specific pages that aren’t next to each other?
Click the page, or type its number, such as 7. For pages that aren’t neighbours, type them separated by commas, like 3, 7-9, 14, or Shift-click a stretch and click the others one by one. Everything you choose ends up in one new file.
Can I extract pages from a scanned PDF?
Yes. A scanned page is a picture inside the PDF, and it is copied across as it is. The tool doesn’t read or alter what is on the page and doesn’t run text recognition, so a scan stays a scan.
Will the extracted pages look the same as in the original?
Mostly. The pages are copied rather than redrawn, so the layout is unchanged and text stays selectable. What doesn’t travel: the original’s Title, Author and Subject (type new ones under Advanced options if you need them) and its bookmarks, and form data may be lost as well. Two cases are different: a password-protected PDF, and any file the tool can’t copy page by page, come out as page images, so the text can’t be selected and the file may be bigger. You get a message when that happens.
Is my PDF uploaded, and how big can the file be?
The pages are copied inside your browser, so the file isn’t sent anywhere; only the PDF libraries come from the internet, when the page loads. Computers can open files up to 1 GB, and phones and tablets up to 300 MB. You’ll get a warning above 250 MB and 100 MB respectively, because the browser holds the whole file in memory. The tool works on one PDF at a time.