Extract pages from a PDF — range syntax, lossless, US lawyer-grade

Yes — fully free, no signup, no credit card, no daily cap. Smallpdf caps the free tier at 2 tasks per day, iLovePDF at 1 file per hour for unregistered users, Sejda at 3 tasks per hour with a 50 MB / 50-page ceiling, and Adobe Acrobat online at 2 free extractions before the $19.99/month Acrobat Pro paywall kicks in. iFillPDF extracts unlimited PDFs at any size your browser RAM can hold (~200 MB practical ceiling on a mid-range laptop).

Yes — extracted pages keep the original bit-for-bit content stream under ISO 32000-2:2020. No recompression, no font subsetting changes, no color profile flattening. PDF/A-2b (ISO 19005-2) archival tags survive on conformant inputs. The output qualifies as reasonably usable form under FRCP Rule 34(b)(2)(E) for US federal litigation discovery production into PACER CM-ECF (35 MB per document cap), and the metadata that authenticates the record (creator, creation date, modification history, digital signature) is preserved on the kept pages.

Adobe Acrobat Pro ($19.99/month, $239.88/year) gives unlimited extraction inside the desktop or Document Cloud app but every page route through Adobe servers in the United States — subject to the Cloud Act. Smallpdf ($9/month after the 2-document daily free cap) and iLovePDF Premium ($7/month after the 1-file-per-hour free cap) re-render through their cloud pipeline. PDF24 ($0, ad-funded) and Sejda ($7.50/month after a 50 MB / 50-page free cap) are German-hosted but still upload your bytes. Soda PDF Premium ($7.99/month) and pdfFiller ($20/month) follow the same cloud-upload model. iFillPDF runs the extractor locally in WebAssembly, so the PDF never leaves your tab — and the metadata mirror sits in EU Frankfurt under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, not under US Cloud Act jurisdiction.

Yes — extraction runs 100% in your browser, so under GDPR Art. 4(2) no processing happens on our servers. The optional metadata mirror is hosted in Frankfurt eu-central-1 (Hetzner Falkenstein) under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, outside the reach of 50 USC §3024 and FISA 702. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, SOC 2 Type II controls. HIPAA-friendly under 45 CFR §164.316(b)(2) records retention rules, no AI training on your PDFs, and temporary artefacts auto-purge within 24 hours.

Yes — PAdES and Adobe Sign digital signatures stay valid on extracted pages because the cryptographic byte range covers only the signed page object and we never re-flatten it. The output is admissible under ESIGN Act 15 USC §7001 and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), and qualifies for federal e-filing into PACER CM-ECF (35 MB per document, 4 KB filename cap). For state-court production, the same file passes the FRCP-mirrored ESI rules in 47 of the 50 states.

IRS records retention under 26 USC §6001 generally requires 7 years for tax returns and supporting records (with no time limit on fraudulent-return material). HIPAA covered entities must keep policies, procedures and audit trails for 6 years under 45 CFR §164.316(b)(2). Extracted PDFs that include receipts, signed releases or PHI-bearing exhibit pages should be archived in PDF/A-2b (ISO 19005-2) format — iFillPDF preserves PDF/A tags on conformant inputs, so a single extract is enough; no separate Acrobat Pro $19.99/month conversion needed.

You can extract pages from a password-protected PDF by entering the open password in the prompt — the password decrypts the file in your browser memory only and is never sent to a server. Owner-restricted PDFs (printing or extraction blocked by the document owner) cannot be extracted by any tool without the owner password, including Adobe Acrobat Pro. iFillPDF respects the same restriction and surfaces a clear error rather than silently bypassing it.

Yes — type 12, 2, 7, 5-6 in the range field and the output PDF lands with pages in that exact order, no separate reorder step required. Adobe Acrobat online keeps source order on extract; pdfFiller forces a separate reorder workflow; Smallpdf and iLovePDF accept reorder only via thumbnail drag in a second screen. iFillPDF combines extract + reorder in a single pass via the range syntax or shift-click thumbnail picker.