How to extract pages from a PDF
Pulling out the pages you need, why it is often better than compressing, and the privacy point people miss.
In short
Click the pages you want and export. The original is untouched, the extracted pages keep their text and quality, and the rest of the document never leaves your device.
Extracting takes the pages you select into a new document and leaves the original alone. It is lossless: the pages are copied as objects, so text stays selectable and images keep their quality.
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Open the document
Thumbnails of every page are rendered so you can find what you want visually.
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Click the pages you need
Selected pages are marked. Order follows the original document.
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Export
You get a new PDF containing only those pages.
The privacy point
Sending three pages of a hundred-page contract means the other ninety-seven are not sitting in someone's inbox. Because extraction happens in your browser, no version of the full document is uploaded anywhere either.
Extract or delete?
Whichever needs fewer clicks. Pulling three pages out of a hundred is extraction. Removing four blank pages from sixty is deletion. Both leave the original intact.
Mistakes worth avoiding
- Compressing a document to make it emailable when the recipient only needed two pages.
- Assuming a table of contents or internal links still work in the extract.
- Redacting by drawing a box over text. Delete the page instead.
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