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How to extract specific pages from a PDF
The short answer
Open PDF Merge in Chrome, choose Split PDF → Extract pages, type a selection like 1-5, 8, 12-20 and export — the selected pages become one new PDF, produced entirely in your browser with nothing uploaded.
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Click the PDF Merge icon in Chrome and choose “Split PDF”, then drop your document in.
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If the file is password-protected, enter the password — it is only used locally to open the file.
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Switch the split method to “Extract pages”.
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Type the pages you want, e.g. 1-5, 8, 12-20 — the button shows how many pages it will extract.
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Click “Extract selected pages” and save the single new PDF, named like contract_p1-5.pdf.
You rarely need the whole document. The signature pages of a 60-page contract, one chapter of a scanned manual, the two exhibits an email actually asked for — extraction means producing a single, smaller PDF containing just those pages. It's also yet another task the top search results want a file upload for, which is exactly backwards for contracts and statements. PDF Merge is a free Chrome extension that extracts pages entirely in your browser: the document is opened, the pages are copied out and the new file is assembled without anything leaving your machine.
Open Split PDF and pick “Extract pages”
Click the extension icon and choose Split PDF, then drop the document in. Split offers two methods; switch to Extract pages. If the PDF is password-protected, enter its password — it is used locally, only to open the file, and is never sent anywhere.
Type the pages you want
Describe the selection the way you'd say it out loud: 1-5, 8, 12-20. Ranges and single pages mix freely, and the button confirms the total before you commit — Extract selected pages: 15 — so an off-by-one in a range gets caught before the export, not after you've sent the file.
Save the new PDF
Click the button and save the result: one new document containing only your selection, named after the source plus the exact pages — contract_p1-5.pdf — so it's still self-describing when you find it in your downloads folder next week. Pages are copied, not re-rendered: text stays selectable and images aren't recompressed, so the extract is as sharp as the original.
When another tool fits better
Two neighbouring jobs have better homes in the same extension. If you want several files out of one document — each range its own PDF, downloadable together as a ZIP — use Split's By ranges method, covered in how to split a PDF into separate files. And if picking pages visually is easier than typing numbers — dropping every blank page of a messy scan, say — open Organize pages, delete the tiles you don't want and export; see how to reorder, rotate and delete PDF pages.
Local, offline and testable
The extension requests no site access at install, has no sign-up, no telemetry and no paywall. Because the work happens in the browser, you don't have to take the privacy claim on faith: disconnect from the internet and extract again. It works exactly the same, which is the simplest possible proof that the document never left your browser. And when the extracted pages need to travel with other documents, the same extension merges PDFs offline too.