Sometimes you only need a handful of pages out of a much longer document — a single form buried in a packet, a few relevant pages from a long contract, or a couple of slides from a full deck exported as a PDF. Sending the whole file when only a few pages matter is unnecessary, and often not appropriate if the rest is unrelated or sensitive.
The quick way
Extract PDF Pages shows every page as a clickable thumbnail:
- Upload your PDF.
- Click each page you want to keep — selected pages are highlighted.
- Click in whatever order is convenient; they come out in the original document order regardless.
- Download a new PDF containing only those pages.
Because output order always matches the source document, you don’t have to click pages in sequence — pick the ones you need in whatever order you notice them.
Nothing gets uploaded, and nothing loses quality
The clicking and copying happen locally in your browser, using WebAssembly — your PDF is never sent to a server to get the pages pulled out. That’s different from most online extractors, which upload your file, process it on their end, and promise to delete it after an hour or two. Here there’s nothing to delete on a schedule, because nothing ever left your device. Worth knowing if the document has anything you’d rather not put through a stranger’s upload queue — a signed contract, a payslip, medical records.
It also means the extracted pages aren’t a recompressed copy. The tool copies the original page content into the new file as-is, so text stays selectable and images keep their original resolution — nothing gets rasterized or re-rendered in the process. Your source file is left alone too; extracting only ever builds a separate, new PDF from the pages you picked.
Non-consecutive pages work fine
There’s no requirement that the pages you select be next to each other — grab page 2, page 15, and page 30 in one pass, and the result is a clean 3-page file in that same 2-15-30 order.
The opposite approach
If it’s actually faster to describe what you don’t want rather than what you do — say, keeping 35 pages out of 40 — flip your approach and use Delete PDF Pages instead, clicking the 5 pages you want removed.
Prefer typing a range to clicking?
Extract PDF Pages is click-only — there’s no box where you type something like 3-8 or 1-3, 5, 8-10. If you’d rather describe the range than pick through thumbnails, or you want each range saved as its own file instead of merged into one, use Split PDF’s “Custom pages” mode instead: type your ranges comma-separated and each one comes out as a separate PDF, with a “download all as ZIP” option if you listed several. Extract PDF Pages is the better fit when you want a single combined file from the pages you pick; Split PDF’s range mode is the better fit when typing is faster than clicking, or you want separate files.
If your PDF is password-protected
Extracting has to read the file’s actual pages, so a locked PDF won’t work here directly. Run it through Unlock PDF first (you’ll need the password), then extract pages from the unlocked copy.
After extracting
The output is a fresh file, so any bookmarks or outline entries pointing at those pages in the original don’t carry over automatically. If you need navigation in the extracted file, Create Bookmarks can rebuild a simple outline for it.