Extract Pages
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About Extract Pages
Pulls a selection of pages out of a PDF into a new document. Unlike splitting, the selection can be arbitrary — pages 2, 7 and 11 into one file — and the pages keep the order they have in the original, whatever order you pick them in.
The pages you did not select are never written anywhere, and the ones you did never leave the browser.
How to use Extract Pages
- Load the source PDF.
- Click the pages you want in the grid of page numbers, or type a selection like 1,4,9-12.
- Check the selection count against what you expected before exporting.
- Extract and download the new document.
On a production
Somebody needs one page of the risk assessment, not all fourteen. Sending the whole document invites questions about the other thirteen pages, and sending a screenshot loses the text layer. Extracting the page keeps it a real, searchable document.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from Split?
- Split cuts one document into several along contiguous boundaries. Extract builds one new document from a selection that can be scattered anywhere in the original. Different jobs, which is why they are separate tools.
- Does the original document change?
- No. Extraction reads the source and writes a new file. If you want the pages gone from the original as well, run Delete Pages on it afterwards.
- Can I reorder pages while extracting?
- No. The new document always follows the original page order: pick 11, then 2, then 7, and you get 2, 7, 11. To choose pages and set their order in one go, use Organize PDF and type only the page numbers you want, one by one, in the order you want them — a page left out of its sequence is dropped.
- Do links, bookmarks and form fields come along?
- The ones that belong to the extracted pages do. A link from one extracted page to another still jumps there, bookmarks to the extracted pages are rebuilt at their new positions, and form fields on them stay fillable with their values. Links and bookmarks to pages you left behind are dropped, and nothing of those pages reaches the new file — not even when an extracted page links to one or shares a form field with it.
- Which document properties does the new file keep?
- Title, author, subject, keywords, the application that created it, the creation date and the language. XMP metadata, attachments, scripts, page labels and the tags screen readers rely on stay out, because any of them can carry content from the pages you did not select.