Somewhere inside a forty-page report are the three pages your colleague actually needs. Extracting them should not mean printing to a new file, screenshotting, or uploading the whole document to a stranger's server. Name the pages — ranges like 2-4, single pages like 7, open ranges like 9- — or click their thumbnails, and this tool copies exactly those pages into a new, smaller PDF, on your device.
Ranges, or eyes on the pages
When you know the numbers, ranges are fastest, and they are honest ranges: inclusive at both ends, commas between groups, and “9-” running to the last page. The pages land in the new file in the order the range produces — document order for ranges, and for thumbnail picks, the order of the pages themselves no matter the order you clicked them in. When you do not know the numbers — the classic “the page with the blue chart, somewhere near the middle” — the thumbnails show every page small but recognisable, and a click marks it to keep. If any thumbnail is selected, the selection wins over the range box, so the two methods never fight.
Copied, not converted
Extraction copies pages at the document level with pdf-lib (running locally in your browser): the extracted pages are the original pages, with selectable text, full-resolution images and working links, and the new file's size shrinks in proportion to the pages kept. Nothing is rendered to pictures. That also means document-level extras — the bookmark tree, named destinations — are not rebuilt in the smaller file; the pages themselves are complete. Your original is never modified.
Extract, split or delete?
Three neighbouring tools, three different intents. Extract (this page) keeps the pages you name, in one new file. Split PDF can additionally break a document into one file per page, zipped. Delete Pages is extraction seen from the other side — it keeps everything except the pages you mark, which is shorter to describe when only a few pages are unwanted. Pick whichever list is shorter to say; the output quality is identical.
Private by design
Like every CalcViso file tool, this one runs entirely in your browser. The file you choose is read by this page, processed on your device, and offered back as a download — it is never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never seen by anyone else. Close the tab and it is gone from memory.
Worked example
Press the sample button: a 5-page sample loads with the range already set to 2-4. Press Extract pages and the download is a 3-page PDF holding exactly sample pages 2, 3 and 4. Then click thumbnails 1 and 5 instead and extract again — now the thumbnail selection wins, and the new file holds just pages 1 and 5.
How to use this tool
- Drop your PDF onto the box (or create the sample) and let the thumbnails render.
- Type the pages to keep — ranges 2-4, singles 7, open-ended 9- — or click thumbnails (a selection overrides the range).
- Press Extract pages and watch the stats confirm how many pages were taken.
- Download the new PDF and open it: it should start on the first page you named.
Handy patterns
Just the first page (covers, title pages, the signed page of a contract is usually the last): “1” — or “1” and the page count for first-and-last together. Everything except a middle chunk: “1-3, 9-” style pairs of ranges. A chapter: find its first and last page numbers in your reader and use that single range. And if the extracted file is still too heavy to email, run it through Compress PDF afterwards — extraction shrinks by pages, compression shrinks by bytes, and the two stack.