Extract exactly the pages you need
Click pages on a visual board — or type ranges — and pull them into a new PDF.
Free: 3 jobs per UTC day, 25 MB per file. PDF exports include a visible Made with Bindery watermark. Pro exports clean PDFs.
Prefer the full studio? Open Extract PDF Pages in the app →
Click page thumbnails to pick them, or type ranges like “1-3, 8” — the board and the range field stay in sync both ways, so you always see precisely what you are taking. Select all, clear, and extract into a fresh PDF.
Bindery runs entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded, so there is nothing to delete from a server afterwards.
How it works
- Drop your PDF and open Extract pages
- Click pages or type a range like 1-3, 8
- Download the new PDF with just those pages
Pull out exactly the pages you need
Extract is the precise tool: a page from a contract that a colleague asked for, the three pages of a bank statement a lender wants, the chapter of a manual that applies to your model. Click thumbnails to pick pages, or type a range — 1-3, 8, 11-12 — and the board and the field stay in sync in both directions. The result is a new PDF containing only those pages, in document order, with the text still selectable.
Extract is also the honest answer when a portal’s size cap cannot be met by compression. A twenty-page scan will not fit under 100 KB, but the one page the form actually asks for usually will — the extract one page path is built for that.
Extract, split or delete?
The three page tools overlap, and the fastest one depends on what you are keeping. Extract keeps a hand-picked set of pages. Split cuts the whole file into parts by a rule — every page, every N pages, or under a size. Delete removes a few pages and keeps the rest, which is the same job as extracting the complement but quicker when most pages stay. For a long document where you need several sections as separate files, run Extract once per section.
Extracting in the browser versus uploading
| Extract pages | Bindery | Upload-based tools |
|---|---|---|
| Where the file is processed | In your browser tab, on your device | Uploaded to the service’s servers |
| Selecting pages | Click real previews or type ranges; both stay in sync | Typed ranges, sometimes thumbnails |
| Large files | Files over 200 MB stream in big-file mode (Pro) | Upload limits usually apply |
| What exists afterwards | The original and the new file, both on your device | A server copy until the retention window ends |
| Works offline | Yes, once the app has loaded | No |
Things to know
- Only the fonts, images and resources the chosen pages use are copied, so an extract from a heavy document is usually much smaller than the source.
- Pages come out in their original order regardless of the order you clicked them. Reorder afterwards with Organize if needed.
- Form fields and bookmarks belong to the whole document and do not travel with an extract; flatten a filled form first.
- Invalid ranges — a page beyond the last, a reversed span — are flagged before you can run.
Questions people ask
Can I see the pages before extracting?
Yes — every page renders as a real preview, and selected pages are clearly marked.
What range formats work?
Numbers and spans, mixed freely: 1-3, 8, 11-12. Invalid input is flagged before you can run.
Is my PDF uploaded?
No — selection and extraction run entirely in your browser.
Can I extract pages from several places in the document at once?
Yes. Type a mixed range such as 1-3, 8, 11-12, or click any combination of thumbnails. All selected pages go into one new PDF in their original order.
Can I extract each selected page as a separate file?
Extract produces one PDF per run. For one file per page, use Split with “every page”, which packs every page into a ZIP as separate PDFs.
Is the extracted PDF smaller than the original?
Usually, often dramatically: only the resources used by the chosen pages are copied. A one-page extract from a 30 MB scan is roughly one-thirtieth the size, which is why extraction beats compression for strict portal limits.