Extract PDF Pages
Save selected pages as a new PDF.
How it works
- 1
Choose your PDF
- 2
Select the pages you need
- 3
Download them as a new PDF
Why PDFTools
Fast
Files are processed on your device, so there is no upload wait and no queue.
Private
Live tools run entirely in your browser — your PDFs never leave your device.
Easy to use
One tool per page, no accounts, no clutter and no setup to work through.
About extracting PDF pages
Extraction is the cleanest way to pull a smaller document out of a larger one. You might need just the signed page of a contract, one chapter from a handbook, a few receipts inside a monthly statement, or the slides a colleague actually asked for. Rather than sending the whole file and hoping the recipient finds the right page, you save only the pages that matter and share a tidy, focused PDF.
Two ways to choose pages
You can tick thumbnails directly in the grid, which is ideal when you can see the pages you want. Alternatively, type into the Pages to extract field using ordinary range notation: 1, 3, 5-8 keeps page one, page three and pages five through eight. The field and the grid stay in sync, so clicking a page adds it to the text and typing a range selects the matching thumbnails.
Validation runs as you type. Page numbers start at one, ranges must begin with the smaller number, and any page number beyond the document length is flagged with a clear message. Duplicates are quietly removed, so 1, 1, 3-5, 4 produces the same result as 1, 3, 4, 5 without any awkward errors.
Original order, clean output
The extracted PDF always follows the original document order, no matter how you selected the pages. Typing 10, 3, 7-9 still produces pages three, seven, eight, nine and ten in that sequence, which is usually what you want for a coherent document. The live counter tells you how many pages are selected at any moment, so you know the scope of the output before you press download.
Quality and privacy
Selected pages are copied into a brand new PDF using pdf-lib, preserving text, fonts, links and vector content exactly as they were. Nothing is rasterised, so the output remains fully usable. Processing is done entirely in your browser: the file never leaves your device, no copy is kept on a server, and no account is required.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I extract several pages into one PDF?
- Yes. Select multiple pages and PDFTools will create one PDF containing those pages.
- Can I extract a page range?
- Yes. You can select page ranges such as 3-8.
- Does extracting pages change their quality?
- No. Original pages are copied into the new PDF without being converted into images.
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. Extraction happens locally in your browser.
- Do I need an account?
- No. PDFTools has no accounts, no sign-up and no email required to use a tool.