How to Extract Pages from a PDF

You have a 200-page manual and only need the 5-page section on backups. You received a court filing but only want the relevant 3 pages. You have a photo book and want to pull out the acknowledgements page. Extracting specific pages is one of the most common PDF tasks.

Extract vs Delete vs Split: which to use

Three tools do similar things. Choose based on your goal:

Extract PDF Pages

Use when you know exactly which pages you want to keep and you don't need the rest. The tool produces one PDF containing those pages. Best for pulling specific sections out of a large document.

Delete PDF Pages

Use when you want most of the document but need to remove some pages. The tool produces the same file with the unwanted pages removed. Best for removing blank pages, cover sheets or duplicate content.

Split PDF

Use when you want to break the PDF into multiple files. The tool produces several smaller PDFs from one original. Best for splitting a report into chapters or a packet into separate submissions.

How to extract pages

1. Open Extract PDF Pages.
2. Add your PDF.
3. Enter page numbers or ranges. Examples: 3, 7-12, 15.
4. Click Extract pages.
5. Download the resulting PDF.

Page range syntax

Ranges support three formats:

• Single page: 5
• Inclusive range: 3-7 (extracts pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Multiple entries: 1, 3-5, 10-12, 20

Reversed ranges like 7-3 are automatically corrected to 3-7. Out-of-range entries (e.g. page 500 in a 200-page PDF) are ignored.

Preserving order

Extracted pages appear in the order they exist in the original document, not the order you typed them. If you enter 10, 3, 7, the extracted PDF contains pages 3, 7, 10 — in that order. To customise the order, use Organize PDF after extraction.

What is preserved

• Page content (text, images, vector graphics) byte-for-byte.
• Page size, orientation and rotation.
• Form fields, unless they reference pages that no longer exist.
• Bookmarks that point to extracted pages.

What is lost

• Bookmarks pointing to non-extracted pages.
• Digital signatures (invalidated because bytes change).
• Some document-level metadata tied to the original page count.

Extracting an image from a PDF page

If "extract" means you want the image inside a page, not the page itself, use PDF Image Extractor instead. It renders each page as an image and downloads as a ZIP.

Extracting text from a PDF

If "extract" means you want the text content, use PDF Text Extractor or PDF to TXT. Both extract all readable text from the document.

Privacy

All extraction runs in your browser. Your PDF never leaves your device.