Extract Pages From PDF — Free Online
The document is opened and edited in this tab. It stays local — a contract or a scan is never uploaded to be processed.
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How it works
Extraction is a copy, not a print
The extracted document is built by copying the chosen page objects and the resources they reference into a fresh document, then writing a new catalog, page tree and cross-reference table around them. Nothing is drawn. That distinction is the whole point: a page extracted this way keeps its text layer, its embedded fonts, its vector graphics and its internal structure, while the same page 'extracted' by printing to images arrives as a flat picture that cannot be searched, selected or read aloud by a screen reader. It also matters for what is left out — resources belonging only to unselected pages are not carried over, so a 200-page report becomes a genuinely small file.
- Range syntax
- 1-based, comma-separated: 12-18 or 3, 7, 20. The output follows the order you typed, so ranges can also reorder as they extract.
- Resources carried
- Only fonts, images and colour spaces referenced by the extracted pages. Content that belonged to the pages you left out does not follow them.
- Cross-page links
- Annotations on an extracted page come with it, but a link whose destination page was not extracted no longer resolves to anything.
- Document metadata
- The new file gets its own /Info dictionary. Check it before sharing if the source document's author name mattered to you.
How to use it
How to extract pages from a PDF online
- 01
Open the PDF
Thumbnails are rendered locally so you can confirm the page numbers before extracting.
- 02
Type the range
Single pages, hyphenated ranges, or both. The order you type is the order you get.
- 03
Download the new PDF
Assembled in the tab. The source file is untouched, so the full document is still there.
Where it earns its keep
Where extracting a PDF range is the job
- Sending a single clause and its schedule from a contract without disclosing the commercial terms.
- Pulling the results section out of a long study to circulate for comment.
- Taking one form out of a bundle a government department sent as a single file.
- Isolating the pages a printer actually needs from a document full of internal notes.
Questions
Extract Pages, answered
Is the content really removed, or just hidden?
Really removed. The output is a new document containing only the copied pages — the others were never written into it, so there is nothing to recover from the file. That is different from hiding pages in a viewer or covering text with a black rectangle, both of which leave the data in place.
Do links from the extracted pages still work?
External links do. Internal links whose target page was not part of the extraction do not, because the destination no longer exists in the document. There is no correct answer here; a link to a missing page has to break somehow.
Is my document uploaded to extract from it?
No. The file is read from disk and the new PDF is assembled inside this browser tab, which is worth caring about when the reason you are extracting pages is that the rest is confidential.
How is this different from splitting?
Extraction takes one selection out and gives you a single new file. Splitting divides the whole document into several files at once. Same underlying object copy, different intent — use whichever matches the sentence you would use to describe the task.