Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

Extract pages in a PDF

Extraction is the process of reusing selected pages of one PDF in a different PDF. Extracted pages contain not only the content but also all form fields, comments, and links associated with the original page content.

You can leave the extracted pages in the original document or remove them during the extraction process—comparable to the familiar processes of cutting-and-pasting or copying-and-pasting, but on the page level.

Note: Any bookmarks or article threading associated with pages are not extracted.
  1. Open the PDF in Acrobat and choose Document > Extract Pages.
  2. Specify the range of pages to extract.
  3. In the Extract Pages dialog box, do one or more of the following before you click OK:

    • To remove the extracted pages from the original document, select Delete Pages After Extracting.

    • To create a single-page PDF for each extracted page, select Extract Pages As Separate Files.

    • To leave the original pages in the document and create a single PDF that includes all of the extracted pages, leave both check boxes deselected.

  4. If a message appears asking you to confirm the deletion, click Yes to delete the extracted pages from the original PDF, or click No to go back to the Extract Pages dialog box.

The extracted pages are placed in a new document named Pages From [original document name]-[n].

Note: The creator of a PDF document can set the security to prevent the extraction of pages. To view the security settings for a document, choose File > Properties, and select Security.