Export selected pages into a brand-new PDF file.
Pull selected pages out of a PDF into a brand-new document, leaving the original untouched. Lossless, and usually a better answer to an upload limit than compression.
Extraction copies the pages you select into a new PDF. The page objects are copied verbatim, so the output is content-identical to the source — same resolution, same quality, same text layer if there was one.
If a portal asks for your degree certificate and you have a forty-page consolidated transcript, you have two options. Compressing all forty pages to fit under 2 MB degrades every one of them. Extracting the two relevant pages produces a 400 KB file at full original quality.
Extraction is lossless and usually more dramatic. Always try it first.
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| A new file with a few specific pages | Extract |
| Several files out of one document | Split |
| One document with a few pages removed | Delete pages |
| The same document in a different order | Organize |
No. Pages are copied as objects rather than re-rendered, so the extracted document is content-identical to the source.
No. Extraction creates a new document and the file on your disk is untouched.
Yes. Select any combination — pages 2, 7 and 15 will come out as a single three-page document in that order.
Roughly proportional to the pages kept, though shared resources such as embedded fonts are carried across, so a single extracted page is not exactly a fortieth of a forty-page file.
Extract first, always. It is lossless and often reduces size far more than compression would. Compress only if the extracted document is still too large.
No. Extraction runs entirely in your browser using pdf-lib.