Extract PDF Pages

How to extract pages from a PDF

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   Open the PDF Drag the file onto the box that says Drop your PDF here, or press Choose a file to browse for it. Its name and page count appear under Document, and each page shows as a thumbnail under Document pages.

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   Click the pages you want Manual selection is active when the file opens. Click a thumbnail to select it and click it again to deselect it, or use All and None. The panel counts the selected pages and writes them as a list, such as 2, 5-7.

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   Or type their numbers Choose By ranges and type the pages in the field under Page ranges, for example 3, 8-10. Every page in that list goes into the same new PDF.

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   Get several files at once Put a semicolon between two lists, as in 1-4; 9-12, to receive one file per list instead of a single file.

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   Download Press Extract and download. For a file named name.pdf, a single file arrives as name_extracted.pdf, and several files arrive together in name_split.zip.

Typing the page numbers

• • A single page: type its number, such as 4.
• • A run of pages: join the first and last page with a hyphen, such as 12-18. The smaller number comes first.
• • Scattered pages in one file: separate them with commas, such as 1, 4, 9-11.
• • One file per part: separate the parts with semicolons, such as 1-3; 10-12. Inside name_split.zip, the parts are numbered in the order you typed them: name_part1.pdf, then name_part2.pdf.
• • The same page in several files: a page may belong to more than one part, so 1, 5-8; 1, 9-12 gives two files that both start with page 1.

Page order inside the new file

Pages always keep the order they have in the original, whatever order you click or type them in: 9, 2 gives a file with page 2 first, then page 9. A page listed twice in the same part is saved only once.

To put the extracted pages in another order, open the new file in Organize and drag the thumbnails where you want them. Organize can also turn a page that came out sideways.

Messages and quick fixes

• • "That page number does not exist in this document." means the list includes 0 or a number higher than the page count shown under Document.
• • A message saying the start page must be less than or equal to the end page points to a range written backward, such as 8-3: write 3-8 instead.
• • "Invalid range format. Use: 1-3, 5, 7-10" means that one part of the field is neither a page number nor a range such as 3-8. Separate pages with commas and parts with semicolons, and remove any letters, periods or other signs.
• • Clicking a thumbnail has no effect outside Manual selection. Switch back to that mode to pick pages by clicking.
• • In Manual selection, Split and download stays disabled until you select a page; in By ranges, until you type something in the field.

Other ways to cut a document

Split mode offers two more options on this page. All pages saves every page as its own PDF, and Every N pages cuts the document into parts of equal length, set in Pages per file, with the last part holding the pages left over.

When you want to keep most of a document and drop just a few pages, Delete Pages lets you point at the pages to remove rather than list the ones to keep.