Split a PDF
Pull out the pages you need, or break a document into separate files. Nothing is uploaded — the split happens in your browser.
Your file
Why use this tool
- No file size limit
- Nothing is uploaded
- No signup needed
Splitting covers two jobs that sound like one. Sometimes you want a few pages out of a long document — the invoice on page 7, the signed page at the end. Sometimes you want the document broken up, one file per part, so each can be sent to a different person.
Both start the same way: say which pages, then choose whether the result is one file or several. Pages are copied across untouched, so what comes out is as sharp as what went in and the text is still text.
How to split a PDF
Add your PDF
Drop it on the box above, or click to pick it. The page count appears straight away, which is what your selection is checked against.
Choose the pages
Type a selection the way a print dialog takes one: 1-3, 8, 12-15. Leave it empty to mean the whole document.
Pick one file or several
One PDF puts every page you chose into a single document. Separate PDFs gives one file per range — or one per page, if you left the selection empty.
How the page selection works
The box takes the same shorthand a print dialog does. A single number is one page. Two numbers with a dash is a run. A comma separates them, so 1-3, 8, 12-15 means the first three pages, then page eight, then four more from twelve.
An open end works too: 7- means page seven to the last page, whatever that is. Leaving the box empty means every page, which is what you want when you are breaking a document into one file per page.
The order you write is the order you get. Typing 5, 1 puts page five before page one, because someone writing it that way is reordering on purpose and silently sorting it would be second-guessing them.
One file or several
One PDF collects everything you selected into a single document. This is extraction: pulling the three pages that matter out of a forty-page report and leaving the rest behind.
Separate PDFs writes one file per range you wrote. Type 1-4, 5-8 and you get two documents. Leave the selection empty and every page becomes its own file, which is the quickest way to break a scanned batch back into individual records.
Each result is listed with its own download button, named after the source and the pages it holds, so a handful of files do not become a guessing game.
Nothing is uploaded
Splitting usually means handing a whole document to a server so it can send part of it back — which is a strange trade when the part you want to keep private is the part you are not extracting.
This runs in your browser. The file never leaves your device, so there is no upload, no queue and no size limit beyond your own memory. A three-hundred-page scan splits as readily as a three-page letter.
Password-protected PDFs are the one thing that will not work: an encrypted file cannot be opened here at all. Remove the password first in whichever application made it. Extracted pages can be numbered again with Add Page Numbers or marked as copies with Watermark PDF.
Selection shorthand
Everything the page box understands.
| You type | You get | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Page 8 only | A single number is one page. |
| 1-3, 8 | Pages 1, 2, 3 and 8 | Commas join runs and single pages. |
| 7- | Page 7 to the end | An open end needs no final number. |
When people split a PDF
One invoice out of a statement
A single page pulled from a long account statement, to send to whoever is paying it.
A batch scan back into records
Twenty pages scanned in one go, broken into twenty files, one per document.
A chapter from a manual
The pages someone actually needs, without sending them the whole four-hundred-page book.
Trimming a signed contract
Keeping the executed pages and dropping the blank annexes before filing.
