What's the difference vs Split?

Extract keeps a single, contiguous selection in one PDF; Split creates one file per page or per range.

Extract Pages

Pick which pages to keep — get a focused, shorter PDF.

Drop a PDF

or click to browse your computer

Accepted: PDF · Files stay on your device

How to extract pages

1
Upload your PDF.
2
Type the pages to keep, e.g. 1-3,7.
3
Download the new PDF.

Understanding extract pages

Extraction keeps only what you select and discards the rest, writing a single compact document. Think of it as the positive of Remove Pages: you describe what you want to keep rather than what should go.

Extracted pages retain their original media box, so a page pulled from an A3 plan set stays A3. If you need everything at one size, crop or re-print the result afterwards.

This is the cheapest way to make a shareable excerpt of a long document because nothing is rasterised — the excerpt stays searchable and selectable.

When you would use it

—Sending only the summary and conclusion of a 90-page study.
—Isolating the pages of an insurance policy that mention a specific clause.
—Building a portfolio from selected pages of several project reports.
—Preparing a handout from a subset of a slide deck exported to PDF.

Practical tips

Listing 5,1,3 gives you the pages in that order — extraction doubles as a quick reordering tool.
Repeating a page number duplicates that page in the output, which is handy for cover sheets.
Use PDF Info first to confirm the page count of an unfamiliar document.

Troubleshooting

Nothing downloads: An empty or invalid selection produces no document. Enter at least one valid page number.
Links inside the excerpt are broken: Internal links that pointed to pages you did not extract have no target left; external URLs still work.

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