Select and Keep PDF Pages
Keep only the pages you tick and delete the rest, producing a clean copy of the document.
How to use Select Pages
- Open your PDF document.
- Tick the pages you want to keep.
- Click "Keep Selected Pages".
- Download the resulting document.
Features
- Tick-to-keep selection
- Deletes everything you did not tick
- Preserves page order and quality
- No upload, fully private
Files are processed in your browser and never leave your device.
About Select Pages
Selecting pages is the inverse of deleting them: tick the ones you want, and everything else is dropped. Faster than deleting page by page when you only need a handful from a long document, and the result is a new PDF with the chosen pages in their original order.
Keep What Matters
Most PDFs are longer than they need to be. A forty-page annual report might contain a two-page summary, a financial table, and a governance appendix that only a handful of people will ever read. Sending the whole file wastes the recipient’s time and buries the useful content. Selecting the pages to keep solves this by turning a long document into a focused one in a single action.
The workflow is deliberately simple. Open the document, tick the pages you want, and leave the rest alone. Everything that was not selected disappears. There is no separate list of pages to delete, no drag-and-drop reordering, no risk of accidentally keeping a page you meant to discard. What you tick is what you get.
The Evidence Package
Lawyers, auditors and compliance officers reach for this tool constantly. An email thread might span thirty pages; only pages five, twelve and nineteen contain the contractual language under review. A due-diligence file might run to two hundred pages; the three that matter are the ones with the warranty clause. Extracting just those pages produces a package that a reviewer can actually read.
The selection does not have to be a single contiguous run. Tick page three, page nine and page forty if that is what the brief requires, and the tool keeps them in their original order. The resulting PDF is short, coherent, and ready to attach to a memo without further editing.
Order Preserved
One detail worth noting is that the kept pages stay in the sequence they had in the original document. Selecting page forty before page three does not put page forty first; the tool respects the natural reading order. That behaviour is intentional. A focused extract should still read like the source document, only shorter.
The file also shrinks in most cases, because the discarded pages take their content with them. A scanned document with large embedded images loses the most weight; a text-only document loses less. Either way, the result is a smaller, cleaner PDF that opens faster and shares more easily.
Real cases
Six real-world scenarios where people rely on Select Pages.
Board Memo from the Term Sheet
A corporate counsel reviewing a one-hundred-and-twenty-page M&A term sheet only needed pages twelve, forty, and eighty-eight, which held the earn-out language, the non-compete, and the change-of-control clause under discussion. She ticked those three pages and produced a four-page PDF that she attached to a board memo, so directors read the relevant provisions instead of scrolling a document none of them had time to finish.
Review Committee Shortlist
A grant officer at a community foundation had to send a review committee the budget, timeline, and evaluation pages of a forty-page proposal while withholding the applicant’s privileged appendix. Ticking the three visible sections produced a clean extract that preserved the proposal’s narrative order and reassured the applicant that sensitive material stayed private.
Client Audit Pack
A compliance manager assembled an audit pack for a client by keeping only the pages of an internal policy manual that the auditors had flagged in their scoping letter. Ticking those clauses across a two-hundred-page manual created a focused document the audit team could actually read, and the manager noted the pack opened noticeably faster than the full manual.
Exam Booklet from the Reader
A secondary-school teacher preparing an end-of-term exam pulled only the four reading passages students had studied from a sixty-page course reader. Ticking the selected pages left the surrounding commentary out of the booklet, which kept the exam fair and the file small enough to upload to the school’s portal in seconds.
Lease Addendum Pages for a Dispute File
A property manager facing a tenant dispute over an unauthorized sublet needed only the three addendum pages that outlined the subletting terms buried in a forty-page lease package. Keeping just those pages produced a concise exhibit for the mediation folder, and the opposing agent remarked how much easier it was to work from than the full lease.
Donor Update Outcomes Pages
A non-profit program director wanted to share last year’s outcomes with a major donor but not the entire evaluation report. She kept the executive summary, the impact-metrics section, and the case-study pages, turning a thirty-five-page report into a nine-page update that the donor read the same day she sent it.
Frequently asked questions
Will removing pages reduce the file size?
The file usually gets smaller because the removed page content is dropped, though the size gain depends on how much those pages contributed.
Can I choose pages that are not next to each other?
Yes, tick any combination of pages and they are kept in their original order.
What does it cost to keep only some pages?
It is free. Keeping a subset of pages costs nothing, adds no watermark, and can be repeated as often as you like.
Do I have to install anything to remove pages?
Nothing to install. The selection and the new PDF are handled in the browser.
Will the kept pages stay in the same order?
Yes. Selected pages are always preserved in their original document order, so the reading flow remains intact.
Can I select pages from a scanned PDF?
Yes. Scanned PDFs work the same as digital ones, and this is often used to extract a few pages from a large scan.
Does this work on mobile phones?
Yes. You can open a PDF and tick pages on a phone or tablet just as easily as on a desktop.
Will my original PDF be modified?
No. The original file is left untouched and a new PDF containing only the selected pages is created.
Can I select pages from a password-protected PDF?
Remove the password first using the Unlock PDF tool, then select pages on the unprotected file.
Are bookmarks and links preserved on the kept pages?
Bookmarks and internal links that point to kept pages carry over, though links pointing to deleted pages will no longer resolve.
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