Taking pages out without taking the document apart
Type the pages you want and you get a new document containing exactly those, in the order you asked for. Your original is never modified.
The pages are copied rather than redrawn, which is the important part. Text stays selectable and searchable, hyperlinks still work, and a vector drawing is still a vector drawing at full resolution. Tools that rasterise pages turn all of that into a picture permanently, and usually do not mention it.
How this tool works
The pages you ask for are copied as whole objects into a new document, in the order you typed them rather than in the order they appear in the original. That is deliberate and it is what makes the tool useful for pulling an appendix into the order somebody asked for it.
Nothing is redrawn. Text stays text, drawings stay vector, and the original is never changed.
The order you type is the order you get
This is the bit that turns a page extractor into something more useful, and most free tools quietly sort your numbers for you instead.
Type "3, 1, 2" and you get a document with page three at the front. That makes this a reorder tool as much as an extractor: pull the pages out in the sequence you actually want them.
Repeats work too. "1, 1, 1" gives you three copies of page one, which sounds odd until you need a signature page three times in a pack.
When you would use this
- One certificate out of a folder of them. A training record or a test certificate somebody has asked for by itself.
- Your section of a bundle. A forty page issue comes back and eight pages of it are yours.
- The drawing off the back of a specification, so it can go to somebody who does not need the other ninety pages.
- A single page to sign, pulled out, signed and merged back in.
- Putting a document in a sensible order when it was scanned in the wrong one.
Writing the page numbers
Commas and dashes. "4" is one page, "9-12" is a run, "1, 4, 9-12" is all of it. "end" and "last" both mean the final page, so "20-end" works without you counting.
It is forgiving on purpose, because this gets typed quickly. Spaces anywhere, semicolons instead of commas, and "12-9" read as 9 to 12 rather than refused. A page number that does not exist is skipped rather than throwing away the rest of the list.
Before you press anything, the panel underneath says how many pages you are about to get. Worth a glance on a long document.
Extract, or delete the rest
They arrive at the same place from opposite ends, and which one is less typing depends on the document.
Keeping eight pages out of forty: extract them. Losing two pages out of forty: delete those two, which is a separate tool and a much shorter list to type. Cutting one document into several parts at once: the full split tool does that in one pass.
You can watch it not happen
No account, no email, no size cap, no watermark and no waiting. The file is read, rewritten and saved by your own browser. You do not have to take that on trust either: open your network tab and watch nothing happen while it works.
Common questions
How do I pull one page out of a PDF?
Drop the file in and type the page number. You get a new document containing just that page, and your original is untouched. No account, no upload, no limit.
Can I extract several pages into one document?
Yes. Type them as a list, like "1, 4, 9-12", and they come out as a single document in that order. If you want them as separate files instead, use split into parts on the full split tool.
Can I reorder the pages while extracting?
Yes, and this is the part most tools miss. The order you type is the order you get. "3, 1, 2" produces a document with page three first. You can also repeat a page: "1, 1, 1" gives you three copies of it.
Will the extracted pages still be searchable?
Yes. The pages are copied whole, so text stays selectable and searchable, links keep working, and fonts and vector drawings are exactly as they were. Nothing is redrawn.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The document is read, rewritten and saved entirely by your own browser, with no request leaving the page. So there is no upload wait, no page limit and no size cap beyond what your device can hold. It also means one page can be pulled out of a contract or a passport scan without a copy of the whole document being handed to anybody, which is usually the reason somebody wants a single page in the first place.