Extract Pages
Extract pages from a PDF into a brand-new document — a single chapter, invoice or form lifted out of a much bigger file. Runs in your browser.
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How to extract pages from a PDF into their own file
Extraction copies the pages you choose into a new document and leaves the original alone. The pages arrive exactly as they were — same text, same fonts, same image quality — because nothing is re-encoded on the way.
Why extract rather than send the whole file
- A three-page extract from a ninety-page contract is far easier for someone to act on than the contract.
- It is usually much smaller, which matters when the full document is too large to email.
- It limits what you are sharing. If only pages 4 and 5 are relevant, the other eighty-eight do not need to leave your hands.
Selecting pages accurately
Ranges are inclusive at both ends, so 12-14 gives you three pages. You can usually mix ranges and single pages in one selection — 1, 4-6, 20 — which is the quickest way to assemble a set of related pages scattered through a document.
Beware the numbering mismatch. The number printed at the foot of a page and the page's position in the file are often different, because front matter is rarely numbered. Extract by what you can see in the thumbnails.
Extract, split or remove?
Extracting produces one new file containing your selection. Splitting divides a document into several files. Removing keeps everything you did not pick. When you want most of a document, remove; when you want a small part of it, extract.
Related reading: extracting pages to get under an email limit.
Questions people ask
What's the difference between this and Split?
Extract gives you one new PDF containing the pages you picked. Split gives you several PDFs, one per page or per range.
Does the original document change?
No. Extraction reads your file and writes a new one. The original stays where it was, unmodified.
Can I extract pages that are not next to each other?
Yes. Select them individually or mix ranges with single pages, and they are collected into one document in page order.
Will the extracted file be smaller?
Almost always, and often by a lot, since you are keeping a fraction of the pages. Shared fonts still travel with the extract, so a two-page extract is not necessarily one-fortieth the size.
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