Extract PDF pages

Name the pages you want and get them back as a single document, with everything else left behind. Useful when only part of a file should be sent on — and it happens on your own machine, so the part you are not sending goes nowhere either.

    • Where it runs

      A PDF is read in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.

    • No queue, no account

      It starts the moment you drop the file, and it never asks who you are.

    • No watermark

      What comes out is the file you made, with nothing added to it.

    How it works

    1. Drop the PDF onto the box above, or press it to choose one.
    2. Name the pages you want: 1-3, 7, 10-12.
    3. Check the summary — it reads your selection back so you can see what you asked for.
    4. Press Extract and download the result.

    Sending part of a document

    This is the tool for the situation where a whole file is more than the recipient should have: one page of a contract, the appendix without the correspondence, the relevant three pages of a fifty-page report. Everything you did not name simply is not in the file that comes out.

    Worth being precise about what that means. The pages you left behind are genuinely absent from the new document — this is not hiding or cropping, and there is nothing to recover from the result. What it is not is redaction: anything on a page you did keep is still fully there, including text under a black rectangle.

    The selection is read back before anything happens

    Typing 1-3, 7, 10-12 into a box and pressing a button is easy to get subtly wrong, and the mistake is invisible until somebody opens the file. So the selection is summarised in plain form — pages 1–3, 7, 10–12 — before you commit, and a page number that does not exist is refused with the document’s real length rather than quietly dropped.

    Extract PDF pages: common questions

    Is the document uploaded?

    No. Extraction runs in your browser and the file never leaves your device — which matters here more than most, because the usual reason to extract pages is that the rest of the document is not for the recipient.

    Are the pages I left out really gone?

    Yes. They are absent from the new document rather than hidden in it, and there is nothing to recover. This is not redaction though: anything on a page you kept is still entirely there, including text sitting under a black rectangle.

    What order do the pages come out in?

    Document order, whatever order you typed them in. Reordering pages is a different operation, and doing it silently here would be a surprising way to find that out.

    Can I extract a single page?

    Yes — just write its number. The result is a one-page PDF containing exactly that page, unchanged.

    Does it change the quality?

    No. The pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable and images come across byte for byte.

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