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Extracting Non-sequential Pages from PDFs

By Rick Borstein

I received this email recently from a paralegal:

My colleague and I have been trying to extract non-sequential pages from a document to create a new document. It appears in the current version of Acrobat Professional (8.1.2) that only sequential documents can be extracted.  Is there a work around for this?  As an example, in a 100 page document we want to extract pages 12, 43 and 97 only.  The ‘extract pages’ option (Document—>Extract Pages) indicates it will extract pages 12-97 which is way more pages than we need.

Yes, it's true that you cannot select and extract a discontinuous range of pages using the Extract Pages option and the Pages Panel.

However, you can drag and drop a non-sequential bunch of pages between two PDFs using the Pages Panel:

Read on for instructions and screen shots. Are you a really visual person? I've also included a movie that shows you how!

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on April 20, 2008 (boomark / email).