Extract pages from a PDF
Keep only the PDF pages you need. Pick them in a thumbnail grid or by range, then save one combined PDF or a ZIP with one file per page.
- Runs in your browser
- Files are never uploaded
- Free, no account
How to extract pages from a PDF
- Drop the PDF onto the box above.
- Click the pages you want, in the order you want them. A numbered badge on each selected thumbnail shows its position in the output.
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Prefer typing? Enter something like
5, 1, 12-14and press Apply range — the order you type is the order you get. - Choose one combined PDF or a ZIP with one file per page, then press Extract.
Order matters, and that is the point
Most extraction tools sort your selection numerically and hand back the pages in document order. This one keeps the sequence you chose, which turns extraction into a quick way to reassemble a document: pull page 9 to the front, follow it with pages 2 to 4, then append the appendix. If you did want plain ascending order, one click on Sort ascending does it.
Selecting the same page twice is allowed too, which is handy for building a repeated separator sheet.
One PDF or one file per page?
| Output | You get | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| One combined PDF | A single file with your pages in the chosen order | The pages form one document: a chapter, a section, a signed set |
| ZIP, one PDF per page |
Files named name_page-04.pdf, zero-padded so they sort
correctly
| Each page is its own document: invoices, certificates, tickets |
Quality and fidelity
Extraction copies page objects directly into the new document — the same drawing operators, the same embedded fonts, the same image streams at their original resolution. Nothing is rasterised or re-compressed, so text stays selectable and searchable and vector graphics stay infinitely sharp. Link and comment annotations on the extracted pages come along; document outlines and attachments do not, because they belong to the original document as a whole.
If you need the pages as images instead of PDFs, use the PDF to JPG converter; if you need them smaller, run the extracted file through the compressor.
Questions
Does the extraction keep my page order?
Yes. Pages come out in the order you typed them, so 5, 1, 3 produces a three-page PDF in exactly that sequence.
One PDF or one file per page — which should I choose?
Choose one combined PDF when the pages belong together, and the ZIP of single pages when each page is a separate document, such as invoices or certificates.
How is this different from splitting?
Splitting cuts a document into consecutive chunks. Extracting cherry-picks any set of pages, in any order, and discards the rest.
Will the extracted pages look identical?
Yes. The page objects are copied without re-rendering, so fonts, vectors, images and annotations survive unchanged.