Split PDF
Pull out the pages you need as one document, or break the whole file into separate pages. Click what you want — no page numbers to guess at.
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PDF · any number of pages
Click the pages you want. They come back as one PDF, in page order.
Splitting a long document writes one file per page before zipping them, so a several-hundred-page split takes a moment and uses memory while it runs.
How it works
Three steps, no account, and the document never leaves your computer.
Drop the PDF in
Every page is drawn as a thumbnail, so you can find what you need by looking instead of opening the file separately to check numbers.
Choose what you want
Click pages to select them, or type a range like 1-3, 7, 12-. Switch modes to break the document into one file per page instead.
Download
A single PDF of the pages you picked, or a ZIP of numbered single-page files. The original is never modified.
When you only need part of a document
Sending one section, not the whole report
A forty-page document where the recipient needs pages 12 to 15. Extracting them is faster to read and smaller to send.
Separating documents that were scanned together
A stack of unrelated papers scanned in one pass — a contract, a receipt, a certificate — that need to become three files.
Pulling one form out of a bundle
Government and bank packets often arrive as one PDF containing several forms. You need the one you have to fill in.
Sharing without oversharing
A statement covering a year when a landlord asked for three months. Extracting the relevant pages beats sending the lot.
Splitting a PDF: the two things people mean
"Split this PDF" describes two different jobs, and knowing which one you want saves a lot of clicking. Either you want a few specific pages pulled out into one new document, or you want the file broken up into its individual pages. Both are here, and they behave quite differently.
Extracting pages
This is the common case. You have a long document and you need a handful of pages from it: a section, a form, a specific statement period. What comes out is a single PDF containing exactly the pages you chose, in page order.
The pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so the extracted file keeps everything the original had — selectable text, real fonts, image quality, working search. It is the original pages in a new binding, not a photograph of them.
One useful detail: selection order does not matter. Clicking page 7 before page 3 still produces a document with page 3 first. If you actually need pages in a different order, extract them separately and use the merger, which does respect the order you set.
One file per page
The other mode takes a document and produces a separate PDF for every page, delivered as a ZIP.
This is what you want when a scanner has bundled unrelated documents into one file, when a system expects one upload per document, or when pages need to be filed individually. The files are numbered with leading zeros — doc-01.pdf, doc-02.pdf — which matters more than it sounds like it should: without padding, your file manager sorts page 10 immediately after page 1, and a hundred-page split becomes a puzzle.
Sizes do not divide neatly
A frequent surprise: split a 10 MB document into ten pages and the pieces do not come to 1 MB each. Two reasons, pulling in opposite directions.
Every PDF carries shared resources — fonts, colour profiles, and images used on more than one page. Each extracted file needs its own copy of whatever its pages use, so a font embedded once in the original may end up embedded ten times across the pieces. Meanwhile, a page with a full-bleed photograph carries nearly all of its own weight, so the piece containing it is far heavier than the rest.
The practical upshot: the total of the parts is usually larger than the whole, and individual pages vary wildly. Neither is a fault.
Extracting is not redacting
Worth stating plainly, because it is a genuine privacy question. Extracting pages 3 to 5 gives you a document containing only pages 3 to 5 — the other pages' content is not in the new file, hidden or otherwise. That is a real removal.
What it does not do is remove sensitive material from within a page you kept. If page 4 has an account number on it and page 4 is in your extract, the account number is in your extract. Whole pages are the unit this tool works in.
Nothing is uploaded
Everything — reading the file, drawing the thumbnails, writing the output, zipping it — happens in your browser. There is no server, which is why there is no account, no page cap and no watermark.
People split bank statements, medical records, contracts and identity documents. Those are exactly the files that should not need a round trip to a stranger's server to have three pages taken out of them.
Common questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read, displayed, split and zipped entirely in your browser using your own processor. Nothing is transmitted, which is why there is no account, no page limit and no watermark.
What is the difference between the two modes?
Extract gives you one new PDF containing the pages you selected. One file per page breaks the whole document into separate single-page PDFs, delivered as a ZIP. Use the first when you need a section, the second when a bundle needs to become individual documents.
Can I choose the order of the extracted pages?
Extracted pages always come out in page order, whatever order you clicked them in. If you need a different sequence, extract the pieces separately and combine them with the PDF merger, which does let you set the order.
Can I type page numbers instead of clicking?
Yes. The range box takes the usual notation: 1-3 for a span, 7 for a single page, 12- for everything from twelve onwards, combined with commas.
Why are the split files bigger than I expected?
Because shared resources have to be duplicated. Fonts, colour profiles and repeated images are stored once in the original but need a copy in every piece that uses them. The parts frequently add up to more than the whole, and pages with photographs are much heavier than pages of text.
Will the extracted pages still have selectable text?
Yes. Pages are copied intact rather than re-rendered as images, so text stays text and the document stays searchable.
Why can it not open my PDF?
Password-protected files cannot be read until they are unlocked. Open it in a PDF reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and split that instead.
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