How to Save One Page of a PDF (or Extract a Few)

1. 1

   Open Split PDF

   Drop the file into Split PDF. Every page appears as a thumbnail, so you can see exactly what you are picking.

2. 2

   Select the page

   Click the thumbnail of the page you want. To pick several, click each one, or switch to range mode and type something like 3, or 1-2, 5, 9-12.

3. 3

   Download the new PDF

   You get one PDF containing only the selected pages, in their original order.

Split PDF has three modes, depending on what you need:

• Pick pages visually by clicking thumbnails. Best for a handful of pages.
• Type a range such as 1-3, 5, 8-10. Best for long documents when you know the page numbers.
• Split every N pages to cut a long file into equal parts, downloaded together as a ZIP. Set N to 1 to save every page as its own PDF.

If you need pages from different documents in one file, extract each set first, then combine the pieces with Merge PDF, which lets you set the order before saving. The merging guide covers that in more detail. If an extracted page is sideways, fix it with Rotate PDF; this guide explains how to make the rotation stick.

On a Mac, Preview can save a page range through File, then Print, then Save as PDF. On Windows, printing a page range to Microsoft Print to PDF does the same. Both work, but they redraw the page through a printer driver, which can drop links, flatten text into images and add margins.

Extracting pages with a PDF tool copies the original pages unchanged, so text stays selectable, images keep their quality and the page size is exactly the same as before.

A single extracted page is usually small, but a scanned page can still be several MB. If it is too large for an upload form, run it through Compress PDF; the 100 KB guide has tips for strict limits.