Extract Odd Pages

Odd pages correspond to the fronts of sheets when the file starts on a front side and contains each side in order, with none missing, and that is what makes this selection useful rather than arbitrary. Two situations dominate. The first is a printer without a duplex unit: you print the odd pages, reload the stack, then print the evens, and manual collation requires the halves as separate documents. The second is recovery, where a scanner captured both sides but you only need the fronts — contract pages whose backs are boilerplate, or forms whose reverse is blank. The tool resolves odd positions against the physical page order of the file, meaning page 1 is the first page in the file regardless of how the document labels it, then copies those page objects into a new document losslessly. A document with an odd total page count yields one more page here than its even counterpart, since the final page is odd.