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Extract pages
Pull selected pages into a new file. Free, no sign-up.
or drop it here
Page previews are rendered on your device — the file is never uploaded.
How to extract pages from a PDF
Extracting copies the pages you pick into a brand-new document and leaves the original untouched.
- Open your PDF. Pages appear as thumbnails.
- Click the pages you want. Selected pages are highlighted. Order follows the original document.
- Extract and download. A new PDF containing only those pages.
Extract or delete — the same job from opposite ends
Extract and Delete pages are one operation approached from two directions. Both build a new document out of copied pages and leave the file on your disk alone. Extract keeps what you clicked; delete keeps what you did not. Nothing else separates them, which makes choosing between them arithmetic rather than a question of what each one can do.
Pulling pages 4 to 9 out of a 200-page report is six clicks here and 194 in delete; dropping a three-page appendix from the same report is the reverse. When the selection runs to most of the document either way, use Select all and then unpick the exceptions — both tools have the button, and it beats working through a hundred thumbnails. The Extract button stays off until at least one page is selected.
The order is the document’s, not your clicking order
Pages come out in the order they appear in the source, whichever order you clicked them in. Clicking page 9 and then page 4 still produces a file with page 4 first, and no page can appear twice. There is no way to extract into a new sequence in one pass — run Reorder pages on the result, which is quicker anyway because there is so much less left to move.
What you get is a genuine copy of each page: same text, same image data, same annotations, nothing re-rendered. The layer above the pages does not follow. The extracted file has no outline, no title or author and no form definition, because those belong to the original’s catalogue rather than to the pages you took — and an internal link pointing at a page you left behind will no longer land anywhere. The download is named after your file, with -extract on the end.
Questions
What is the difference between extract and split?
Extract produces one new file containing the pages you picked. Split cuts the document into several files at once. Use extract for "I need pages 4, 9 and 12"; use split for "give me each chapter separately".
Does the original change?
Never. Nothing on this site modifies your original file — we read it and produce a new one for you to download.
Can I extract pages in a different order from the original?
Not in one step. Extraction always follows the document’s own order, no matter which order you click the thumbnails. Extract first, then run Reorder pages on the much shorter result — there is far less to move by then.
How do I extract each page into its own file?
That is Split PDF with the one-file-per-page setting: a 40-page document becomes 40 single-page PDFs delivered as one zip. Extract always produces exactly one new file, however many pages you tick.
Can I extract pages from a password-protected PDF?
Not while the password is on. This page renders a preview of every page before you can pick any, and a protected file cannot be read to do that — it stops at the drop zone with a message pointing you at Unlock PDF. Remove the password there, then come back with the unlocked copy.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, using the same engine as the Folia desktop app. Your file is read from your disk into your browser’s memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It never crosses the internet, so there is nothing for us to store, leak or hand over.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The only ceiling is your own device’s memory, which differs from one computer to another — so we read what your browser reports about this machine and show the resulting limit on the page. Light tools like merge and rotate handle far more than heavy ones like OCR, which must render every page. For anything larger, Folia for Desktop has no limit at all.
Is it really free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every tool is free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up. Ads pay for the site, and your own computer does the work, which costs us nothing. Signing in with a paid Folia plan simply removes the ads.