Extract Pages from PDF

How to extract pages from a PDF

1. Drop your PDF, or click to browse. The tool reads it on your device and shows how many pages it has.
2. Type the pages you want to keep in the box — single pages, ranges, or a mix like 1-3, 7, 12-15.
3. Check the live preview line. It tells you exactly how many pages you are about to extract before you commit.
4. Click Extract Pages to download extracted.pdf, or tick the separate-files box to get one PDF per page instead.

Page range syntax, with examples

The page box accepts a comma-separated list. Spaces are optional, so 1-3,7 and 1 - 3, 7 do the same thing. Here is what each pattern produces on a 20-page document:

• 7 — a one-page PDF containing only page 7.
• 1-3 — pages 1, 2 and 3.
• 1-3, 7, 12-15 — eight pages: 1, 2, 3, then 7, then 12 through 15.
• 5, 1-2 — three pages in a new order: page 5 comes first, then pages 1 and 2. This is the reordering trick, and it is the main thing this tool does that a plain splitter cannot.
• 10-6 — a reversed run: pages 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Because order is preserved, a backwards range is a real instruction rather than a mistake to be corrected.
• 3, 3, 3 — page 3 repeated three times, useful for duplicating a form or a cover sheet.

Numbers that fall outside the document are ignored silently, and a range that overshoots the end is trimmed to the last real page — so 18-40 on a 20-page file quietly becomes pages 18, 19 and 20. If you type something the parser genuinely cannot read, it says so inline and leaves the button disabled instead of guessing.

Extract vs. split vs. delete — which do you want?

These three jobs sound alike and get mixed up constantly, so here is the honest breakdown.

Extract — this page — is for when you know which pages you want to keep and you want them in one new file, optionally in a different order. Pulling pages 4 to 9 out of a contract, or building a highlights reel from a long report, is extraction.

Split is for cutting a document into pieces without picking and choosing: one continuous range, or every page as its own file. If that is your job, our Split PDF tool has a simpler two-box interface built exactly for it.

Delete is extraction turned inside out — you name the pages you want gone rather than the ones you want kept. If that is how you think about the job, Delete PDF Pages takes the list of pages to remove and does the arithmetic for you. You can also do it right here: on a 20-page file, dropping pages 8 and 9 just means typing 1-7, 10-20. The result is identical either way, because a PDF with pages 8 and 9 removed and a PDF extracted from everything except pages 8 and 9 are the same document.

One thing worth knowing whichever you pick: none of these operations re-encode anything. Pages are copied wholesale, so text stays selectable, fonts stay embedded, and images keep their original resolution. The output is smaller than the input only because it has fewer pages in it, not because anything was squeezed.

Is it private?

Yes. Toolyard opens and rebuilds your PDF inside your browser, on your own machine. Your file is never uploaded to any server, there is no account to create, and nothing is stored after you close the tab. That matters for the documents people actually need to trim — contracts, medical records, bank statements, ID scans — which are exactly the files you should never hand to an anonymous upload form.