I was surprised with how little can be done with PDFs in Shortcuts, especially because PDF is a native format of the platform.

Printing is the native workaround to extract a page (or a selection of them), but it's hard to find if no one tells you about it. And you can't use it to get non-continuous pages.¹ So I decided to see what could be done with Shortcuts. The results are far from espectacular, but the shortcut may be useful in a pinch.

A Spanish version is also available.

(¹) Well, what do you know! Since releasing version 1.1.0 I've found out the system's printing dialog can be used to get non-contiguous pages. And it also creates PDFs if you pinch out!

What you can do

• Extract any single page
• Extract any range of pages
• Extract any combination of ordered pages

And all this without losing resolution or access to the text of the PDF!

What you can't do

• Preview the pages (yet)
• Extract each page to a separate file (yet)
• Reorder pages (although Toolbox Pro has an Edit List action. Mmmm...)
• Rotate pages²
• Combine pages²

(²) I don't see a way to do these without converting the pages to images