How to Extract Pages from PDF Documents

Sometimes you don’t need to keep all the information in a huge report, or it’s too large for you to copy to a USB flash drive, or there are only a few pages worth noting. If that’s the case, you can extract the pages out of the original document and create a new, lighter file.

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Acrobat Professional on PC or Mac

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Start Adobe Acrobat Professional. Open the document with the page to split.

Click the Pages tab on the left side of the document window. The Pages page will appear and display thumbnails of the document’s pages.

Page settings. In the Pages page, drag and drop the images of the pages you want to split so they appear sequentially.

For example, if you want to separate the first page and the third page, drag the picture of the third page forward until a blue bar appears above the thumbnail of the second page. the new position of the 3rd page when you drop the photo.
Drop the pictures in a position so that the pages appear sequentially. The page you dragged is now the second page of the document.

In the Document category, select the Pages icon, then select Extract. Alternatively you can right click on any selected page and do the same.

The Extract Pages dialog box will appear.

Set the page scope. If the page range displayed in the dialog box is incorrect, re-enter the pages you want to split into the dialog box.

Adjust settings. To delete the separated pages in the original document after extraction, select the “Delete Pages After Extracting” item.

Select “Extract Pages As Separate Files” to create a new file for each page you want to split. Do not select the above option if you want to merge the pages into one file.

Click OK. Acrobat will split the pages into a new PDF document.

Save and close the new document. You can change the name and save location, and then return to the original document. Select Save to automatically save as PDF, or select Save As… (Save As…) to see other options, including PDF, PNG, JPEG, Word documents, and many more. other format.

Clean up the original document. If you choose not to delete the separated pages from the original document, and want to revert the order of the moved pages, click Revert on the File menu. Otherwise, save your edited file as usual.

Using Google Chrome

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Open Google Chrome browser.

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Press Ctrl-o to open a dialog to find the file you want to split.

Find or enter the file name and press “Open”.

In the file, click the menu in the upper right, which looks like 3 black horizontal bars.

Select “Print”.

Click the “change” button next to “destination”.

Select “Save as PDF” (Save as PDF).

Press the “All” button and enter the number of pages you need.

Click “Save”.

You will be asked (via the dialog box) to enter a file name, choose a save location then click “Save” to finish.

Preview on Macintosh

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Start Preview. Open the document with the page you want to split, then click the Thumbnail button at the top of the window. A thumbnail bar will appear, showing all the pages in the document.

Page settings. If you want to separate non-consecutive pages into a separate file, drag the pages together and in the order you want them to appear in the new document. You can press shift and click to select all the pages to split.

In the File folder, select Print. In the Print dialog box, enter the range of pages you want to split, or select “Select Pages” in the sidebar.

Print the PDF file. At the bottom left of the Print dialog box, press the PDF button, then select Save as PDF… (Save as PDF…)

Name the file. Select the location you want to save, give it a name, and then save it. It is done!

SmallPDF Online Tool (for all platforms)

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Go to Smallpdf.com Use your favorite browser and go to http://merge.smallpdf.com .

Select the document with the pages to split. Drag and drop a PDF file (or multiple PDF files) to a location that allows file drop on that page.

Edit files and rearrange the order. Switch to “Page mode” (2.) on the web page. You can then view individual pages. At the bottom of each page, you’ll see the document number (move the number to see the heading) and on the left side is the page number. You can rearrange the order or select the pages you want to split and delete the remaining pages by clicking the X icon in the corner of each image.

Combine PDFs. When you’re done and the file has been uploaded, you can create the final PDF by clicking the button below the preview. A new PDF file will be created and automatically downloaded, you will find it in your browser’s downloads folder.

CutePDF Writer

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Open the CutePDF website. Select CutePDF Writer. You will be taken to the download page. CutePDF Writer is a free software.

Download the necessary files. You will need to download the CutePDF installation file and the GPL Ghostscript converter. Both have links on the site.

Install both files. Install the converter first, then CutePDF. The software will be installed as a printer that you can select from the Print menu of any program.

Open the file with the page to split. You can open the file with any PDF reader. Then open the Print menu, select the page you want to split instead of the whole document. You can use the Range section to select multiple pages.

Select CutePDF in the list of available printers. In all Print menus, you will see a list of connected printers. Select CutePDF then press Print.

Select the location to save the file. A few seconds after pressing Print, a window will appear asking you to choose a location and name the file. CutePDF will not print anything, instead it will create a new PDF file from the selected pages.

PDFsam

Advice

If the document is already secured and does not allow page splitting, you will not be able to follow the above methods. All you have to do is print the document out.

Warning

The Acrobat application (both Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro) does not allow printing of documents

PDF. Acrobat Pro only supports splitting, and Acrobat Reader does not support both page splitting and printing.

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