How to extract pages from a PDF without uploading it

  1. Open your PDF. Tap Choose a PDF or drop the file anywhere on the page. Every page appears as a thumbnail with its page number.
  2. Select the pages. Click pages to select them; shift-click selects a whole run. Or type ranges like 1-3, 7, 12-14 into the field — the grid follows along, and Invert flips the selection for keep-all-but-these jobs.
  3. Download. One PDF from selected makes a single file in page order. Each page separately gives you individual one-page PDFs, and Split every page does that for the whole document.

What it does

  • Real page thumbnails with page numbers — click to select, shift-click for a run of pages
  • Type ranges like 1-3, 7, 12-14 — the field and the grid stay in sync both ways
  • Extract the selection as one PDF, as separate per-page files, or split every page
  • Invert and clear selection in one tap for keep-everything-except jobs
  • Opens password-protected PDFs when you type the password — it never leaves the page
  • Runs entirely on your device; the only network requests fetch the open-source libraries

Why splitting a PDF shouldn't require an upload

The usual "split PDF online" flow sends your whole document — every page, including the ones you're trying to remove — to someone else's server. If the reason you're splitting is that page 4 is a signed contract or a medical record, uploading all of it first defeats the point. This tool does the whole job in your browser: the file opens in memory on your device, the pages you pick are copied into a new PDF there, and the result downloads straight back to disk.

Selection that works how you think

Small jobs are visual: click the thumbnails. Long documents are numeric: type 1-3, 7, 12-14 and the grid lights up to match — and if you click a few more pages, the range field rewrites itself. Shift-click grabs a run of pages, and Invert handles the common "everything except these two" case in one tap. The selected count is always visible, so you never download a file to find out what's in it.

Three ways out

One PDF from selected builds a single file from your selection in page order — the everyday case. Each page separately produces an individual PDF per selected page, which is what you want when one scan session captured three different documents. Split every page explodes the whole file, useful before re-assembling in a different order.

Quality and limitations

Pages are copied as objects, never re-rendered: text stays selectable and images keep their original bytes. Bookmarks and interactive form fields don't survive the rebuild — the honest tradeoff of every in-browser splitter. And a page you extract is exactly as good as the source page; splitting can't repair a bad scan. If what you actually want after splitting is to find that page again in March, that's the job of the Paperlock app — a private, searchable document vault on your iPhone.