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How to extract pages from a PDF

Extracting pages creates a new PDF from only the pages you choose. It is useful when a long document contains a smaller section you want to keep or share without sending the entire file.

Updated August 10, 2026

Quick answer

Choose the pages you need and save them as one new PDF.

Open the source PDF, select the individual pages or ranges you want, confirm their order, then create a new PDF containing those pages. Extract is different from Split because the selected pages are combined into one output document.

Step 1: choose the source PDF

Open the document that contains the pages you want to reuse. If it is a sensitive document, consider whether the extraction tool processes files locally or uploads them before you begin.

Step 2: select the pages you want to keep

Choose individual pages or ranges such as pages 2–4 and 9. With eggPDF, visual selection is available for page-level work, and manual page/range input can also define the output.

Step 3: check the output order

The new document should follow the order you intend. If you enter selections manually, make sure the first valid occurrence of each selected page appears in the sequence you want.

Step 4: extract and download

Create the new PDF, open it and verify the first and last selected pages. eggPDF performs its extraction flow in browser memory instead of uploading the selected PDF contents to an eggPDF PDF-processing server.

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Extract vs Split: what is the difference?

Extract keeps selected pages together in one new PDF. Split is for creating multiple separate output files, for example one file for pages 1–3 and another for pages 4–7.

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