Extract pages from a PDF
A buyer disputes one order out of the four hundred in this morning's file. A courier asks for the manifest page carrying one AWB. Your accountant wants invoice 118 and nothing else. Each time the job is the same: two or three pages out of a document that nobody outside your business should see the rest of.
Click the pages you want and they become a new PDF. The file you started with is not touched. The order you type is the order you get, so 9, 1-3 really does put page 9 first, which is the quiet way to reorder a document without reaching for a second tool.
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How it works
- Add the PDF. One file at a time. Every page appears as a thumbnail, and the sidebar starts counting pages, pages you are taking and pages you are leaving behind.
- Pick the pages. Click the thumbnails, or type the numbers as 1-3, 7, 9-12. The two stay in step: clicking rewrites the box, and typing re-selects the thumbnails.
- Use the shortcuts when they fit. Select all, Clear, Odd and Even sit above the grid. Odd and Even earn their place after a double-sided scan, where every second page is the back of a delivery note.
- Export. Each chosen page carries a small badge showing where it will land in the new file, so you can check the order before pressing the button. The result is saved as yourfile-pages.pdf.
What it handles
- Pages picked by clicking thumbnails or by typing ranges, whichever suits the file
- The typed order is kept, so 9, 1-3 puts page 9 first and the range box doubles as a reordering tool
- Odd, Even, Select all and Clear for the patterns that come out of scanners
- A #1, #2, #3 badge on each chosen page showing its position in the output
- Counts as you pick: pages in the file, pages being taken, pages being left
- A typo is explained rather than rejected - "page 90 does not exist, this file has 42 pages" - and your selection is left alone
- The source file is read only; the extracted pages are copied objects, so text and barcodes are unchanged
- One PDF out, named after the file it came from
Your files stay on your computer
This runs inside your browser tab. The file is read and written on your own device and is never uploaded — not the order PDF, not the customer names and addresses printed on it. There is no upload endpoint to send it to.
Questions
- Can I include the same page twice?
- No. Repeats are dropped, so typing 3, 3, 5 gives you a two-page file containing pages 3 and 5. If you genuinely need two copies of a page - a label you want to print twice - extract it once and then merge that file with itself.
- What is the difference between this and splitting?
- Splitting divides the whole document into pieces and hands you all of them. Extracting takes the pages you name and ignores everything else, giving you one file. For "send the courier page 41", extract. For "give each packer half the labels", split.
- Does clicking the thumbnails respect the order I click in?
- No, clicking always selects in page order, because that is what clicking a grid implies to most people. Reordering is done through the range box: type the page numbers in the sequence you want them to appear, and that sequence is what gets written.
- Is the original file altered in any way?
- No. It is opened read-only and never written back. You get a second, smaller PDF alongside it, which is the point when the thing you are sending out must not contain the other 397 orders.
- Are the pages uploaded to be extracted?
- No. The document is read and the new one is built inside this browser tab, on your computer. That matters most on exactly this job, since the reason you are extracting is usually that the rest of the file is not for the recipient's eyes.