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 and create a new PDF that includes all of the extracted pages during the extraction process - comparable to the familiar processes of cutting-and-pasting or copying-and-pasting, but on the page level.
- Open the PDF in Foxit PDF Editor and choose Organize > Extract. Check Show Preview to preview the current document in the pop-up Extract Pages dialog box.
- (Optional) Right-click the page thumbnails that you want to extract and choose Extract Pages… to open Extract Pages dialog box.
- In the Extract Pages dialog box, specify a page range to extract. You can choose All pages in range, Even pages only, Odd pages only, Landscape pages, or Portrait pages to extract the related pages in the specified range.
Choose a type of Extract Mode:
Extract pages as one PDF: The extracted pages will be placed in a new PDF document named “Extracted pages from [original document name].pdf”.
Extract pages as several PDFs by comma (,) sign: With this option selected, if you have specified several page ranges separated by comma, pages in each page range will be extracted and placed in a separate PDF document. The generated PDFs will be named “[original document name]_1.pdf”, “[original document name]_2.pdf”, and so on.
Extract each page as a PDF: Each extracted page will be placed in a separate PDF named “[original document name]_1.pdf”, “[original document name]_2.pdf”, and so on.
Select the following options as needed:
Immediately save extracted pages: save the extracted pages into a new PDF file after you click OK. The saved file will not be opened in Foxit PDF Editor automatically. If the item is not checked, a new PDF file that includes the extracted pages will be opened without being saved. You will have to manually save it.
Delete the pages after extraction: delete the selected pages from the original document.
- Click OK after setting.
Notes:
- 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 tab.
- If you choose Extract pages as several PDFs by comma (,) sign or Extract each page as a PDF, the Immediately save extracted pages option is not available. You will need to choose a folder to store the generated PDFs after clicking OK.