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Pulling six pages out of a 900-page manual is a two-second job that most tools turn into a five-minute one, because you have to know the page numbers before you start. Here the pages are drawn as thumbnails and you click the ones you want — shift-click takes a run — and the tool carries the bookmarks that belong to them across, so the extract opens with its own navigation instead of an empty pane. It can also hand you the pages you did not select, as a second file, which is what pulling a section out of a document actually needs. Nothing is uploaded, so the other 894 pages never leave the building.
Step by step
01Open the document
Drop it anywhere on the page. Every page is rasterised into a thumbnail in this tab, so you are choosing by sight rather than by memory.
02Click the pages you want
Click to add one, shift-click to take everything between it and the last one. The chips above the grid select all, none, odd, even, or invert what you have.
03Decide what shape the output takes
One file with the selection in order, one file per page as a zip, and optionally a second file holding everything you left behind.
04Take the file
Page count, real byte size, and how many bookmarks travelled with it are listed before you download. It was built the moment you finished selecting.
A worked extract
The sample document is a seven-page report whose outline has four chapters and three sections. Extracting the Findings chapter is three pages, and the interesting part is what comes with them.
Given
What the two files carry
report-pages.pdf 3 pages 3 bookmarks
Findings → page 1
Search demand → page 2
Referral mix → page 3
report-pages-remainder.pdf 4 pages 4 bookmarks
Cover · Method · Sampling · Appendix AEvery bookmark survives because each one is renumbered to wherever its page landed, and between the two files every page of the original is accounted for. That last property is the reason the second file exists: extracting a section usually means removing it from somewhere, and doing it as two separate operations is how a page ends up in neither copy or in both. Nothing is re-rendered along the way — the pages in the extract are the same bytes as the pages they came from, so text stays selectable and a signature stays valid-looking.
Before you extract
Choosing by sight beats choosing by number
Page numbers printed on a page and page numbers in the file disagree constantly — front matter is numbered in Roman numerals, or not at all, and a scan starts at whatever the feeder took first. Thumbnails remove the translation step, and shift-click makes a 40-page run one gesture.
An extract should keep its own bookmarks
A chapter pulled out of a manual still has sections. The entries whose pages came along are renumbered to their new positions, and a chapter heading whose own page was left behind is kept and pointed at the first section that survived, so a branch never vanishes silently.
Extracting and deleting are the same operation
Taking pages 12 to 19 out of a document and removing pages 12 to 19 from it produce the two halves of the same cut. Doing them as separate uploads to separate tools is how a page ends up duplicated in both copies or missing from both, which is why one checkbox here produces both files at once.
Nothing is re-rendered
Page content streams, embedded fonts, and images are copied byte for byte. The extract is visually identical to the source pages, its text is still selectable and searchable, and it does not gain the fuzziness that a print-to-PDF round trip introduces.
A page order is a page order
The selection is written in page order rather than click order, which is almost always what people mean. If you want a different sequence, the expression field takes it literally — typing 5, 1, 3 gives you those pages in that order.
The document you are extracting from is often the reason to stay local
Contracts, medical records, and HR files are exactly the documents people extract a page or two from, and exactly the ones a policy forbids uploading. Every page here is decoded and rewritten in the tab, so the file never becomes someone else's problem to delete.
The judgement call
What you are going to do with the pages decides the shape.
Sending a section to someone
One file
The pages stay in order and keep the bookmarks that belong to them, so it reads as a document rather than a pile of pages.
Filing scanned receipts individually
One file per page
Each page becomes its own PDF in a zip, named after its page number, which is what a document management system wants.
Removing a confidential annex before sharing
Both halves
You get the annex and the redacted document from the same selection, so no page can end up in both files or in neither.
Splitting a document into chapters
Use Split PDF
Extraction answers 'these pages'; splitting at bookmarks answers 'every chapter', names each file after its heading, and needs no selection at all.
Keeping only the pages that have something on them
Blank chip, then invert
The grid measures ink coverage as it draws, so the blank pages can be selected in one click and the selection inverted in one more.
Reference
FAQ
Open the document, select the pages, and save the selection as a new file. The Tinapps extract PDF pages tool draws every page as a thumbnail so you can click the ones you want — shift-click takes a whole run — and the same selection can also be typed as a range like 2-4, 9, 12-end.
Yes. The Tinapps extract PDF pages tool decodes the document with pdf.js and rewrites it with pdf-lib inside the browser, so the file never leaves the device. That matters most for the documents people usually extract from — contracts, medical records, HR files — which are often covered by a policy that forbids third-party processing.
No. Extraction copies page content streams, embedded fonts, and images across unchanged, so the extracted pages are byte-identical in appearance to the originals and their text stays selectable and searchable. Nothing is rasterised, which is what distinguishes it from printing a page range to a new PDF.
Most tools discard them, so the extract opens with an empty navigation pane. The Tinapps extract PDF pages tool keeps the entries whose pages came along and renumbers them, and a chapter heading whose own page was left behind is kept and pointed at the first of its sections that survived.
Yes — turn on 'Also keep what is left' and the Tinapps extract PDF pages tool writes two files from one selection: the pages you chose, and everything else. Doing it as two separate operations is how a page ends up in both copies or in neither, which is the usual failure when removing an annex before sharing a document.
Select every page and turn on 'One file per page'. The Tinapps extract PDF pages tool then writes one PDF per selected page, named after its page number, and delivers them as a zip built in the browser — useful for filing scanned receipts or certificates individually.
Not in the Tinapps extract PDF pages tool: there is no page cap, no file size ceiling, and no daily task counter, because the work runs on your own processor rather than a metered server. The only practical limit is the memory a browser tab can allocate.
Pages are drawn and extracted entirely in your browser. The document is never uploaded, and the extract exists only as the file you download.
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