How to Extract a Single Page from a PDF on Mac OS X

There are some times when you have a large PDF file and you want to extract a single page (or a range of pages) into a separate PDF file.  This may be helpful if you want to use the free version of a conversion program (e.g. PDF OCR X) that will only handle single-page PDFs and you want to choose specifically which page to convert.

Mac OS X makes this very simple.

Steps:

1. Open the PDF in Preview
   
   

   

   A 50-page PDF file opened in the OS X Preview application.

2. Select "File" > "Print"
   
   
   
3. In the "Print" dialog box, select "Single" or "Range" in the "Pages" drop-down, depending on whether you want to extract a single page or a range of pages.

   

   The "Print" dialog.  Selecting "Single" allows us to extract a single page.  Selecting "Range" allows us to select a range of pages.

4. Click the "PDF" button in the lower left corner of the dialog, and select "Save as PDF..."
   
   
   
5. Select the location where you want the resulting 1-page PDF to be saved.
   

That's all there is to it.

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