Split PDF
Extract specific pages or split into separate files.
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1-3, 5, 8-10.document_pages_1-10.pdf — so you can tell them apart without opening each one.Everything runs in this browser tab. The document is never uploaded, which matters given that the files people split are usually contracts, statements and reports they would rather not hand to a stranger's server.
Pull a selection out into a single new document. You have a 60-page annual report and someone needs the four pages covering their department. Type 18-21 and you get one clean four-page PDF.
Cut the document into defined sections in one pass — chapters, monthly sections, a bundle that needs separating along known boundaries. This is the mode for "the first 12 pages are the agreement and the rest are schedules".
One file per page, numbered in order. This is the workhorse for scanned batches: you fed forty separate documents through a sheet-feeder and got back a single forty-page PDF, and now each one needs to be its own file. It is also how you prepare pages for a system that accepts only one page per upload.
The range expression is the same everywhere on the site. Singletons, ranges and any mix, comma-separated: 4, 4-9, 1,4-6,11. Spaces are ignored, so 1 - 3, 7 works too.
Splitting copies page objects straight across into a new document. There is no rendering step, so this is one of the few PDF operations that is genuinely lossless.
Text stays selectable and searchable with its original embedded fonts. Images keep their exact pixels — a 300 DPI scan is still 300 DPI in the output. Vector artwork stays vector. Page size and rotation travel with each page, so a landscape page pulled out of a portrait report arrives landscape. Form fields and annotations come with the pages they sit on.
Bookmarks survive the split too, which is unusual for a browser-based tool. The outline tree is rebuilt in each output file, entries pointing at pages that did not make the cut are dropped, and the ones that remain are re-pointed at their new page positions. Extract chapters 4 to 7 from a manual and the resulting file still has a working sidebar.
Three tools sit close together here, and the difference is what you end up holding.
Split PDF produces several files from one. The original stays whole on your disk; you gain new documents.
Delete Pages produces one file with fewer pages. Reach for it when the answer is "this document is right apart from pages 3 and 17".
Reorder Pages produces one file with the same pages in a different sequence, using a drag-and-drop thumbnail grid.
And going the other way, Merge PDF combines documents end to end while Insert Pages places pages from one document at a chosen position inside another.
No. Pages are copied as objects rather than re-rendered, so images, fonts and vector graphics are byte-identical to the original. A 300 DPI scan stays 300 DPI, and text stays selectable. Splitting is genuinely lossless.
Yes. Splitting works at the page boundary and does not care whether a page holds text objects or a scanned image, so scans split exactly like born-digital documents. If you also want the output searchable, run it through OCR to add a real text layer.
Your browser's memory is the practical limit, and it is generous — 500-page documents split comfortably on a mid-range phone. For very large files, a desktop browser has more headroom, and compressing a heavy scan first makes the whole thing quicker.
Each file carries its page range in the name, for example document_pages_1-10.pdf, so a folder of outputs is self-describing and stays in order without you renaming anything.
Yes. Each output file gets a rebuilt outline tree: entries pointing at pages that were not included are removed, and the rest are re-pointed at their new positions. Titles in non-Latin scripts come through correctly too.
Remove the password first with Protect PDF, then split. You can re-apply protection to the output files with the same tool afterwards.
Each output holds only its own pages, so the parts are smaller than the whole. They will not sum to exactly the original size, because resources such as embedded fonts are carried into every file that needs them — a font shared by three output files is written into all three.
No. The PDF is read and the new documents are written entirely inside this browser tab, then handed to your downloads folder. Turn off your network connection before you start and splitting still works.
Privacy: Your PDF is read, split, and zipped entirely inside this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded. If you close the tab, the file is gone from our side.