Extract pages from a PDF

Splitting divides a document; extracting takes a piece out of it. The distinction matters when you only want three pages of a forty-page contract, and you do not want to explain the other thirty-seven. The original is untouched — what you get is a new file containing exactly what you picked, in the order the pages appeared.

When you need this

• A form asks for one specific page of a long statement or contract.
• You need the signature page, or the page with the stamp, and nothing else.
• An application wants a single certificate that is buried in a bundled scan.
• You are quoting a few pages of a report and do not want to share the rest.

Picking pages

Click the thumbnails, or type ranges into the box — the two stay in sync, so you can start with a range and refine by clicking, or the other way round. Shift-click selects a run. Select all, odd and even are there for the cases where the pattern is regular rather than arbitrary.

Extracting is not redacting

Leaving a page out of the new file means that page is not in the new file — but if the pages you kept contain something sensitive, extraction does nothing about it. Text you can select is text anyone else can select. This tool moves pages; it does not remove content from within them.

Order

Pages come out in document order, not in the order you clicked them. If you need a different sequence, extract first and then reorder in the merge tool, which lets you set the order explicitly.