Extract pages from a PDF

Split breaks a document up at boundaries you choose. Extract keeps a specific set of pages and discards the rest. If you know the page numbers you want, this is the shorter route.

No. Your file is read, never written — the extracted pages are a new document and the original on your computer is untouched.

Single numbers, ranges, or both separated by commas — 3-7, or 1, 5, 9. A running count tells you how many pages you have selected before you start. The pages always come out in the document's own order, whatever order you type them in.

One file gives a single PDF containing the pages you named, in order. Separate files gives one PDF per page, delivered as a ZIP assembled in your browser — what you want when each page has to be filed or sent on its own.

Yes. Pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable, images keep their resolution and nothing is recompressed. A single extracted page is often not much smaller than the whole document, because the fonts and images it uses come with it.

No — each page appears once in the result, however many times you type it. To repeat a page, extract it and then merge that file in as many times as you need.

They often do not survive. The page content is copied, but a form's definition lives at document level rather than on the page, so fields can come across without working. If the document is a form, fill it in and flatten it before extracting.