How to Extract Specific Pages From a PDF
Sometimes you don’t need the whole PDF — just one page from a 40-page contract, or a single chapter from a report. Extracting those pages into their own file is faster to send, easier for the recipient to review, and avoids sharing information you didn’t mean to include.
Figure out your page numbers first
Open the PDF in any viewer and note down the page numbers you need. Two details matter:
- Use the PDF’s actual page position, not a printed page number. A document with a cover page and table of contents might have “page 1” printed on what is actually the PDF’s 3rd page. Count from the very first page of the file, including covers.
- Write the range the way you want the output, not the way it looks in the document. If you need pages 5, 6, 7 and then separately page 10, that’s one range request:
5-7,10.
Extracting the range
- Open the Split PDF tool and add your file.
- Choose “Extract a page range.”
- Type your pages, for example
1-3,5,8-10— this pulls pages 1 through 3, page 5, and pages 8 through 10, in that order, into one new PDF. - Download the result. The original file is untouched; this creates a new, separate PDF.
Reordering while you extract
Because the pages appear in the output in the order you list them, you can also use this to reorder a document, not just shorten it. Typing 5,1-3 produces a new PDF with page 5 first, followed by pages 1 through 3 — useful if you need to move an appendix or summary page to the front without editing the original file in a full PDF editor.
When you want every page as its own file instead
If your goal is the opposite — breaking a PDF into one file per page, rather than pulling out a subset — use the “Every page as a separate file” option instead. It bundles every page into a ZIP file you can download in one step, which is useful for splitting up a scanned batch of documents or separating pages that each need to go to a different recipient.
A note on password-protected files
If the source PDF is password-protected, it needs to be unlocked first using a PDF reader before it can be split — this tool, like most browser-based PDF tools, can’t process an encrypted file directly. Once unlocked, split it here — the file stays in your browser the whole time.
Ready to try it? Open Split PDF →