HowtoextractpagesfromaPDF

Extracting is the inverse of deleting: instead of naming what to lose, you name what to keep. For anything where the keep list is shorter than the drop list — three pages out of ninety — it is far less typing and far less error-prone.

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The order you type is the order you get

Typing 5, 1, 3 gives you those three pages in that sequence, which quietly makes extraction a reordering tool as well. For a short document, it is often faster than opening an organiser.

Ranges work the same way as everywhere else: 3, 7-9 keeps four pages, and everything unnamed is left behind.

Extract, split or delete?

  • Extract when you want a few pages as one new document — the signature pages of a contract, one section of a report.
  • Split when you want the whole document broken into several files at once.
  • Delete when you are keeping nearly everything and dropping a handful.

All three copy page objects rather than re-rendering them, so none of them costs you quality. The choice is only about which is less work to describe.

One page as its own file

Naming a single page gives you a one-page PDF — the usual precursor to converting that page to an image, since a one-page conversion downloads directly instead of arriving as a zip.

The tool

Extract PDF pages

Pull a handful of pages out into a new document.

Questions people ask

Yes. The page is copied whole, so fonts, vectors and image resolution are unchanged and the text stays selectable.