How to Extract Pages from PDF Using 4 Free and Easy Methods

As a file format that occupies an important position in various fields, PDF has been increasingly used and recognized by people because of its super first-class security, compatibility, and transmission. Compared with other file formats, the size of PDF is very suitable for storing all kinds of materials and data, which also makes some PDF files often have a very large number of pages and contents. Therefore, when people only need a page or several pages of PDF, how to extract this part of the content for independent use has undoubtedly become an urgent need of PDF users.

This post has listed 3 totally free but very efficient methods for PDF users to split PDF with Windows, Mac, and a free online PDF tool PDFgear. Now let’s see the detailed tutorials and choose a preferred method to follow!

Also, we provide a step-by-step video tutorial for you to extract pages from PDF more easily.

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How to Extract Pages from PDF Using Google Chrome

With the increasingly powerful update of the Windows system, it has already developed PDF reading and PDF printing functions. And PDF printing is the key for PDF users to complete PDF splitting successfully, and PDF flattening as well. Any application with a printing function can realize PDF splitting. Here we will take Google Chrome as the demonstration object.

The comprehensive steps are shown below for Windows users.

Step 1. Open a PDF with Google Chrome

Open the PDF with Google Chrome and hit the printer icon in the upper right corner of the page to open the print setting window.

Step 2. Print Setting in Chrome

In the “Destination” column, select “Save as PDF”. Then select “custom” in the “pages” column and enter the page range you want to extract.

Tips: You can also set the content layout of the new PDF in the “Page per sheet” column.

Step 3. Save as PDF from Chrome

After you have set all the contents, click the “Save” button at the bottom to save your new PDF file in any folder you like.

Windows’ built-in features do provide users with convenience, but the Mac system is no less. The built-in app Preview of Mac can also solve the problem of PDF splitting for Mac users rapidly.

How to Extract Pages from PDF on Mac with Preview

To separate a single page from multiple pages in a PDF with the Preview app, please follow our steps below.

Step 1. Go to “Print…”

Find the PDF file that you need to edit and open it with the Preview app (Open with> Preview). If the Preview app is your default app for opening, just double-click on the file.

The PDF file is open in Preview. Now you click on File and choose Print…

Step 2. Select Pages in Preview

A print dialogue window pops up as below. You can select pages to extract under Page by inputting the page number.

Step 3. Choose “Save as PDF”

After setting the page range you want to extract from the selected PDF file, here we want to take it as an example, we set it from 1 to 2, navigate to PDF at the bottom and choose “Save as PDF”.

Step 4. Save the Selected Pages

A new window will appear after you choose to Save as PDF, to complete the page extraction, give a name for your new PDF file, choose a location to save it and finally click Save.

In your daily life, you often have large amounts of PDF files to deal with, such as page extraction from a PDF file, page conversion, and so on. You might need a professional PDF editing tool, like Adobe Acrobat DC which makes PDF editing easy.

Both Windows and Mac have built-in capabilities to split PDFs. However, when you want to split multiple pages at once or get multiple PDFs containing a certain range of pages, these two methods cannot achieve such an effect at present. You can only repeat the same operation to get a new PDF file at a time, which will consume a lot of energy and time.

But don’t worry. We provide you with a third method. It is also free, but it can help you split multiple new PDFs in one operation.

How to Extract Pages from PDF Online with PDFgear

Coming up thirdly is using a free online PDF tool PDFgear to extract pages from PDF. PDFgear is an all-in-one online PDF tool that consists of a variety of functions like PDF converting, PDF compressing, PDF editing, PDF merging, and PDF splitting. Also, due to its outstanding compatibility, PDFgear online tool can work on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux.

No need to log in, completely free, no file restrictions, PDFgear combines these features and can easily help you split PDFs and give you a comfortable user experience with clean pages and simple operations.

Step 1. Upload Your PDF to PDFgear

Navigate to the home page of PDFgear, find the Split PDF tool on the guide, or just click the link and open PDFgear PDF Splitter. Then hit the blue button to upload the large PDF you want to split, and you also can drag and drop the file to the toolbox to upload it.

Step 2. Extract Pages in PDFgear

Enter the desired page range in the blank box. If you want to separate multiple PDFs at once, please enter different page ranges in the blank box and separate them with commas (for example, if you want the contents of pages 5-7, 10-11 and 25-30, you need to enter “5-7, 10-11, 25-30” in the blank box). After you set the page range, click “Split”.

Step 3. Save New PDFs

Hit the “Download” button to save your new PDF or PDFs to the output location. Find them and rename them for the convenience of use.

Throughout the process, PDFgear will protect your privacy. Whenever you close or refresh the window, PDFgear will delete all information from the server. At the same time, you don’t have to worry about the security of your original file. The PDFgear splitting tool won’t damage your original file. It is still intact in the same location on your device.

How to Extract Pages from PDF on Adobe Acrobat DC

Adobe Acrobat DC is one of the best PDF editors for its various features to help you organize PDFs, including splitting and merging documents, converting PDFs, and more. It is a pity that some of the features you need to pay to use it. For your reference, the Adobe Acrobat Standard DC on its official pricing website is US$12.99/mo. If you are OK with it, you have a try it.

In this part, we will show you how to extract pages from a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat DC. Check the following steps to start it.

Step 1. Choose Organize Pages

Launch Adobe Acrobat DC and Open the PDF file from which you are going to extract and choose Tools.

After choosing Tools, you will see a panel of PDF editing tools listed below, just choose Organize Pages.

Step 2. Choose Extract

You will be guided to a new page and select Extract on the top of the toolbar.

Step 3. Choose the Page or Pages to Extract

Adobe Acrobat DC takes all needs into account and provides 2 options to select pages to extract. Just choose the best one for yourself.

• Directly input a page range

• Choose among Even Pages, Odd Pages, Landscape Pages, Portrait Pages, or All Pages.

Step 4. Click Extract in Adobe Acrobat DC

Make sure that you have selected the pages that you want to extract, and then click Extract. After the extraction is done, a new document will be automatically opened in a new window.

Notes:
Here are two options shown on the left of the Extract button.

Delete Pages After Extracting: The extracted pages will be removed from the original PDF file.

Extract Pages As Separate Files: Each extracted page will be saved as an individual PDF.

Frequently Asked Questions on Extracting PDF Pages

After reading this post, if you still have some questions, please read the FAQs below.

How do I extract pages from a PDF without Acrobat?

Here is a free and useful way for you to extract pages from a PDF without Acrobat. Let’s meet PDFgear, the free remedy for PDF users to conquer all PDF problems. It can split multiple PDFs in just a few clicks. Here are the simple steps.

Step 1. Open the Split tool page of PDFgear and upload your PDF.

Step 2. Enter the page range you want to extract, and click “Split” after confirming.

Step 3. Download and save your new PDF or PDFs.

How to merge PDFs for free？

You can use PDFgear to solve this problem. PDFgear is a free online tool to make PDF work easier for PDF users with rich and powerful functions including PDF splitting and merging. Now let’s see the detailed steps.

Step 1. Open the Merge PDF tool page of PDFgear.

Step 2. Upload multiple PDFs you want to merge and hit the “Merge PDF” button.

Step 3. Click the download button to save the new PDF.

Why Can’t I Extract the Pages from the PDF?

Protected documents, such as PDF/A documents and or PDFs that have been certified or encrypted with strong passwords, can not have pages extracted. For such documents, only the owner of the document can extract them.

To check whether the PDF is supported to be extracted, please go to File > Properties > Security > Page extraction (Allowed or Not Allowed).

How Do I Extract Specific Pages from a PDF?

If you only want to extract specific pages to get a new PDF, PDFgear Split Tool offers a Page Range option which allows you to enter the desired page number to extract online for free.

For example, if you have a 20-page PDF and you want to extract pages 2-3, and pages 7, just enter 2-3,7 (a comma used between for separation) in the column of Page Range. And then you will get a new PDF document containing pages 2, 3, and 7.

To Sum Up

Although the three methods recommended in this article are free, there is no doubt that they are very practical and effective. When you need to extract pages from a PDF, please select the corresponding method according to your specific needs.

If you only need one page of content in PDF or the page range of PDF, you can operate according to the default functions of your system. However, if you want to obtain multiple PDF files in one operation, please directly select PDFgear, the free online PDF tool, which can help you save a lot of time and improve the efficiency of work or study. Download PDFgear Desktop to experience operation without file size and quantity limits.