What this does

Drop in a PDF and every page is laid out in front of you. Click the ones you want and download just those — as a single document with the pages in order, or as one file per page if you need them separately. The rest of the document is left behind entirely; it isn't hidden, it simply isn't in the file you get.

Nothing is uploaded. The PDF is read and the new one written entirely inside this page. That matters here because of what people usually extract: one page out of a bank statement, the signature page of a contract, a single certificate from a scanned bundle. Sending the whole document to a server in order to get one page back out of it rather defeats the exercise.

How to use it

Click a page to take it, and click it again to put it back. Chosen pages are highlighted and tagged, and the ones you're leaving fade out — so you can see the document you're about to get before you get it.
Type the numbers if you already know them: 1, 4-6 takes four pages. Typing and clicking stay in step — type a range and the tiles update, click a tile and the box does.
One PDF or a file each. One PDF is the usual answer. A file each is for when the pages are separate things that were scanned in one go — a stack of invoices, a set of certificates — and you want them as separate documents.

Pages come out in document order, however you clicked them. If you need a different order, that's Organize PDF.

What comes across

Pages are copied whole, with the fonts, images and annotations they depend on — nothing is re-rendered, re-compressed or flattened into a picture. Text stays selectable and searchable, and vector artwork stays sharp.

What doesn't come across is the document's metadata. The files this produces are created fresh, with no title, author, producer or creation date carried over and none invented — so a page pulled out of a document doesn't quietly bring its author's name and your local timestamp with it. Bookmarks and the outline are left behind too, since the structure they point at no longer exists once the document has been taken apart.

Extracting, removing and splitting

These are one operation seen from three angles. Extracting keeps only what you clicked.Removing keeps everything except what you clicked.Splitting keeps every page and shares them between several files. If you want three pages out of a hundred, extract. If you want to delete three pages from a hundred, remove — clicking three beats clicking ninety-seven.

Is it private?

Yes, and you can check. The work is done by JavaScript in this page; your PDF is never sent anywhere, and there's no server on the other end to send it to. Open your browser's network panel while you use it, or disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded — it carries on working.

Frequently asked questions

Why did I get a zip?

Because you asked for a file per page and there was more than one. Browsers block a page that tries to start several downloads at once, so one archive is the reliable way to hand them over. A single page, or a single PDF, downloads as a plain file.

Can I take the same page twice?

Not here — each page is taken once, in document order. Duplicating a page is a rearranging job, and Organize PDF does it.

How big a PDF can it handle?

It's limited by your device's memory rather than an upload cap, so files in the tens of megabytes are fine. Page previews are drawn only as you scroll to them, so a 400-page document doesn't have to render 400 images before you can do anything.

It says my PDF is protected.

Encrypted PDFs can't be taken apart without the password, and that includes files with an owner password that only restricts printing or copying. Open it in a reader that can unlock it, save an unprotected copy, and use that.