How to extract pages from a PDF (free, in your browser)

To extract pages from a PDF with Kopitiam, open Extract Pages, drop in your PDF, tap the pages you want in the Pages panel, and click Extract. A new PDF containing just those pages downloads straight away. Your original file is not changed.

It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark. The work happens in your browser, so the document is never uploaded. That matters when the pages you are pulling out are a payslip, a bank statement or a passport scan.

Extract, split or delete: which one you need

These three jobs sound alike but give you different files. Picking the right one first saves a second attempt.

• Extract: copies the pages you choose into one new PDF. Use it when you need "just pages 12 to 15" or "only the signed page".
• Split: cuts one PDF into several files at the points you mark. Use it when a scan holds three separate documents and you want three files.
• Delete pages: gives you the same document minus some pages. Use Organize PDF when it's easier to say what to throw away than what to keep.

How to extract pages, step by step

1. Open Extract Pages and drop your PDF onto the page, or click to choose it.
2. The Pages panel opens with a button for each page: Page 1, Page 2 and so on. On a computer it sits on the right; on a phone it sits above the bottom toolbar.
3. Tap each page you want. A tick appears, and the button at the bottom changes to show how many you have picked, for example Extract (3).
4. Click Extract. The new PDF downloads at once, named after your file with "-extract" on the end.
5. Open the new file and check it has the right pages before you send it.

Selection follows position, so reorder before you select, not after. If you move pages around once they are ticked, the ticks stay on the same positions and may end up on different pages.

Splitting into several files instead

The same Pages panel does splitting. Between each pair of page buttons there is a small scissors button labelled Split after page 1, Split after page 2 and so on. Tap the scissors wherever one document ends and the next begins. The action button changes to show how many files you will get, such as Split into 3.

Click it and each part downloads as its own PDF, numbered part1, part2 and so on. Because several files download at once, your browser may ask you to allow multiple downloads. Say yes, or you may only get the first part.

To turn every page into its own file, tap every scissors button. A five-page PDF becomes five one-page PDFs. That is useful when an upload form wants each document as a separate file.

Before you send anything, rename the downloads. A name like payslip-sep-2026.pdf tells the recipient what they have, where report-extract.pdf or report-part2.pdf does not.

Everyday examples

• A loan application asks for your last three payslips, and HR sent the whole year as one PDF. Tick the three months and extract them.
• A landlord wants only the signed page of a 20-page tenancy agreement. Extract that one page and send it, rather than the full contract.
• A visa form needs your passport photo page, which sits inside a scanned bundle with your IC and birth certificate. Extract the passport page alone.
• You scanned a stack of paperwork in one go: an insurance letter, a utility bill and a receipt. Split it at the right pages to get three files you can name and file properly.

Sending only the pages someone asked for is also a small privacy habit. A payslip request does not need your whole year of salary history.

What the new PDF keeps

Extraction copies pages as they are. Text stays selectable and searchable, images keep their resolution, and nothing is re-compressed, so the extracted pages look exactly like the originals.

• If you added text, a signature or a rotation in the editor before extracting, those changes are included in the extracted pages.
• A few extracted pages are usually much smaller than the full file, but not always in proportion. Fonts and images shared across the document come along with the pages that use them.
• Bookmarks from the original are not carried into the new file.
• Fillable form fields may not stay fillable, so fill in a form before you extract from it.
• A digitally signed PDF will no longer show a valid signature in the extracted copy. If the recipient needs to verify the signature, send the full signed original.

Deleting pages instead

When you want to drop two blank pages from a 30-page report, ticking 28 pages is slow. Open Organize PDF, click the delete button on the pages you don't want, and click Download organized PDF. The button shows how many pages will be saved. Organize also lets you reorder and rotate pages in the same pass.

When it doesn't work

• The Extract button is greyed out: no pages are ticked yet. Tap at least one page button.
• "This PDF is password-protected": Kopitiam can't open locked PDFs yet. Open it with the password in your PDF reader, use Print and then Save as PDF, and extract from that copy.
• "This PDF has editing restrictions": the same Print to PDF trick works. If you only need to see the pages, PDF to JPG can still turn it into images.
• Nothing downloaded: check your browser's downloads list, and whether it blocked a download from the page.
• The wrong pages came out: you probably moved pages after ticking them. Untick everything, check the order in the page rail, then tick the pages again.
• A scanned PDF: extraction works the same on scans. Each page is a picture, and it is copied as it is.

Phones, big files and privacy

On a phone the page rail is hidden on narrow screens, so you can't drag pages into a new order there. Ticking pages and extracting works fine. If you need a different order too, extract first, then rearrange the new file in Organize PDF with its Move left and Move right buttons.

Kopitiam sets no file-size limit. The practical limit is your device's memory, so a several-hundred-megabyte scan may be slow on an older phone. Once the page has loaded, extraction keeps working without a connection, and at no point is the file sent anywhere.