How to pull pages out of a PDF (or get rid of the ones you don't want)
By The CompressImages Team
A 90-page report lands in your inbox and you need exactly four pages of it. Or you've scanned a stack of documents and the first page is a blank cover sheet that nobody wants. Same problem, really — you want a cleaner, shorter PDF — and there are two ways to think about it.
Extract: keep only what you want
When you need a small slice of a big document, extract it. Open Extract PDF Pages, click the pages you want to keep (or type a range like 12-15), and download them as a fresh PDF. The original stays untouched; you just get a tidy copy of the bit that matters.
This is the move for "can you send me just the invoice from that bundle" or pulling a single chapter out of an ebook to read on the train.
Extract pages from a PDFOpen toolRemove: keep everything except a few pages
Flip it around when the thing you want to lose is small. With Remove PDF Pages you click the pages to delete — that blank cover, a duplicate scan, a page of internal notes you'd rather not forward — and everything else is saved as a new file. It's the faster choice when you're keeping 95% of the document.
Remove pages from a PDFOpen toolSo which one?
Easy rule of thumb: if you're keeping a few pages, extract. If you're deleting a few pages, remove. You could do either job with the other tool and some patience, but matching the tool to the situation means fewer clicks.
- Want pages 4, 5, and 6 of a 50-page file → extract
- Want the whole file minus page 1 and page 30 → remove
- Want to split one document into several separate files → that's Split PDF
- Want to reorder and rotate pages as well → that's Organize PDF
Tip — Both tools let you work by range, so "1-3, 5, 8-10" is fair game. Handy when the pages you care about aren't conveniently next to each other.
Whatever you pick, the pages you keep come through at full quality — no re-compression, no watermark, nothing stamped on top.