Extract Pages from a PDF into a New, Smaller File
Pull the marksheet, certificate or form page you need out of a long PDF and save it on its own.
Drop a PDF here
Extraction happens entirely in your browser and the file is never uploaded anywhere.
About this tool
A college often hands back one long PDF in which the degree, all the semester marksheets and the migration certificate have been scanned together, 15 or 20 pages in a row. A job application then asks for the final year marksheet alone, usually under a size cap of 200 KB to 1 MB. Uploading the whole bundle fails the size check, and splitting it by hand means paid software or a print and rescan.
This tool copies the pages you name into a brand new PDF and leaves the original untouched. Type the page positions, press Extract pages, download the result. Because the output is built from scratch with only those pages, it is usually a fraction of the size of the source.
The extraction happens in your browser with the pdf-lib library. The bundle is never uploaded, so a file that holds your degree, your photograph and your roll number stays on your own device.
How to extract pages from a PDF
- Drop the PDF on the upload box or click it to browse. The page count is shown under the box.
- Find the position of each page you want by scrolling through the file in a viewer.
- Type the positions in the Pages to extract box, for example 1,3,5-8.
- Press Extract pages.
- When the green Ready panel appears, press Download. The new file carries the original name with -extracted added.
- Open the download and check that the pages you expected are there.
Writing the page list
Entries are separated by commas. A number on its own means that page; two numbers joined by a hyphen mean every page from the first to the second. Spaces are ignored, repeats are merged, and a run that goes past the end of the file is cut at the last page. The parser works the same way as in the Remove pages tool, so a list that worked there works here.
One thing to notice is that the output is always in ascending order. Typing 5,1,3 gives you pages 1, 3 and 5 in that order, not the order you typed. To change the sequence of pages, extract them first and then use the Organize PDF tool.
| You type | Pages in the new file |
|---|---|
| 5 | 5 |
| 1,3,5-8 | 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| 5,1,3 | 1, 3, 5 (sorted, not in typed order) |
| 10-99 | 10, 11, 12 |
| 8-5 | nothing; a backwards run is empty, write 5-8 |
| 1-12 | all twelve, which is simply a copy |
| 12,13,14 | 12 only; 13 and 14 do not exist |
What a new document means for the output
The tool does not cut pages away from the original. It creates an empty PDF and copies the chosen pages into it, each with its own fonts, images and drawing instructions. Scanned pages come across as the same image at the same resolution, so there is no change in quality.
Some things that belong to the document rather than to a page are not carried over. Bookmarks, the title and author fields, and the outline panel of the original are absent in the new file. If the source has fillable form fields, open the output and check them before relying on them, since the structure that makes fields interactive is document level and may not survive the copy.
The size of the output depends on what the extracted pages contain. A single scanned marksheet page at 300 dpi is often 300 KB to 800 KB on its own, so if a portal wants less than that, reduce the scan with an image tool before or after extraction.
Extract or remove, which to use
- Use Extract pages when you want a few pages out of many. The list is short and the output is small.
- Use Remove pages when you want to drop a few pages and keep the rest, including bookmarks and document properties.
- Use Split PDF when you want every page, or fixed chunks, as separate files rather than one chosen set.
- Encrypted PDFs cannot be opened by any of these tools. Remove the password first in the application that set it.
Extraction runs entirely in your browser. The source PDF is never uploaded and is cleared from memory when you close the tab.
Frequently asked questions
›How do I save only certain pages of a PDF as a new file?
Type the page positions you want, such as 2,7-9, in the Pages to extract box and press Extract pages. The tool writes a fresh PDF that holds only those pages and offers it for download with -extracted in the name. The original file is not modified, so you can extract a different set from it afterwards.
›Can I extract pages in a different order from the original?
No. The extracted pages always come out in the order they sit in the source file, whatever order you type them in. If you need the marksheet before the degree, extract both pages first, then open the extracted file in the Organize PDF tool and move the pages with the arrow buttons.
›Is the extracted page the same quality as the original?
Yes. The page is copied as is, including the embedded scan image at its original resolution and any text and fonts. There is no re-rendering and no compression. If the page looked sharp in the bundle, it looks identical on its own; if it was blurry, extraction does not fix that.
›How do I get the final year marksheet out of a scanned degree bundle?
Open the bundle in any viewer and note the position of the marksheet page, say page 9 of 14. Choose the bundle in this tool, type 9, press Extract pages and download. If the marksheet runs across two sheets, type 9-10. Check the file size against the portal limit before uploading.
›Why did the tool ask me to enter pages when I typed a range?
The list produced no valid page. Common causes are a backwards range such as 9-3, numbers larger than the page count, or a separator other than a comma, such as a semicolon or the word and. Rewrite the range with the smaller number first and use commas between entries.
›What is the difference between extract pages and split PDF?
Extract pages gives one new file containing the specific pages you choose. Split PDF breaks a document into several files according to a pattern, such as every page on its own or fixed groups of pages. For one marksheet out of a bundle, extraction is the direct route; for sending each certificate as a separate attachment, split.