Extract Pages

What does the Extract Pages tool do?

The FreePDF Extract Pages tool pulls the pages you choose out of a PDF and saves them as a new document — the opposite of Delete Pages. Select pages visually from real thumbnails or type ranges like 1-3, 5.

Extraction is lossless: pdf-lib copies the selected pages at the file-structure level, keeping text, images and vectors exactly as they were.

How to extract pages

1. 1
   Add your PDF

   Drag and drop or browse for the source document.

2. 2
   Select the pages to keep

   Click thumbnails to choose pages, or type ranges like 1-3, 5, 9-12.

3. 3
   Click Extract pages

   pdf-lib assembles the selected pages into a new PDF in your browser.

4. 4
   Download the result

   Save the extracted PDF to your device. No watermarks, no account.

What FreePDF Extract Pages can do

• Visual selection or typed page ranges
• Pages are extracted in your chosen order
• Lossless copying — original quality preserved
• Works entirely in your browser — no file uploads

Privacy — your files stay on your device

Extract Pages runs entirely inside your browser using pdf-lib and PDF.js (Mozilla) — open-source, audited libraries with millions of users. Your files are loaded into browser memory, processed on your CPU, and written back out as a direct download. Nothing is sent to any server — you can verify this in your browser devtools → Network tab. Close the tab and everything is cleared from memory.

Supported devices and browsers

Known limitations

FreePDF is honest about what it can and cannot do:

• You must keep at least one page
• Very large PDFs depend on your browser's available memory
• Password-protected PDFs must be unlocked first