Extract Pages from a PDF
Pull out just the pages you need from a larger PDF and save them as a new, separate document — perfect for sharing only the relevant sections of a file.
Drop your file here, or click to choose
Editing your PDF with Extract Pages
1Drop the PDF
Drop your PDF file into the tool — it stays on your device.
2Select pages to keep
Select the pages you want to keep by clicking their thumbnails.
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Extract
Click "Extract Pages".
4Download the new PDF
Download a new PDF containing only the pages you selected.
A real use case
An HR coordinator has a 40-page onboarding packet but only needs to send a new hire the two pages covering direct-deposit setup. Open Extract PDF Pages, click those two thumbnails, and download a standalone two-page PDF — no need to explain which pages to ignore in the full packet.
Why edit with Extract Pages in your browser?
- 📤 Pull just the pages you need to share — like one signed page from a long contract — into a brand-new, standalone PDF.
- 🖱️ Pick pages visually from thumbnails instead of typing out page ranges and hoping you counted right.
- 🔒 Extraction runs on-device, so the source document doesn't have to be uploaded to get a few pages out of it.
- 💸 Free to use with no limit on how many separate extractions you run.
What this changes in your file
pdf-lib creates a new, empty PDF document in this tab and copies only the pages you selected into it, using the same page-copy method Merge uses — each page is transferred as a complete object, not rasterized or recompressed, so text stays selectable and images keep their original quality. The new document is assembled in browser memory and handed straight to your download, with the source file never leaving your device.
Limits and edge cases
- The extracted pages keep whatever page size and orientation they had in the source file — extraction doesn't resize or reflow content to a standard page size.
- A password-protected PDF needs to be unlocked first, since pulling pages out requires reading the source document directly.
- Extracting from a very large source file is bounded by your device's memory, since the whole document is loaded into this browser tab to read from it.
- Interactive form fields tied to specific pages may not carry over identically, since extraction copies pages as content, not as a live form structure.
