A 40-page scan when you needed page 12. A bank statement where only the last three pages matter. A contract you want to send without the internal appendix. Toolsyy’s Split PDF tool pulls out exactly the pages you want — and nothing you upload ever leaves your device.
Two ways to split
The tool offers a choice, and picking the right one saves a lot of clicking.
- Extract a page range into one PDF. The pages you name stay together in a single new file. This is what you want when you’re sending someone “just the summary” or “chapters 2 to 4.”
- Split every page into its own PDF. A 20-page document becomes 20 separate files, each named after its page number. Useful when every page is a separate document in its own right — a batch of scanned invoices, or one certificate per person.
The page-range syntax
Ranges are written the way you’d say them out loud. Commas separate entries, and a hyphen makes a range:
7— just page 7.1-5— pages 1 through 5.1-3, 7, 12-14— mix single pages and ranges freely.2-2— the same as writing2.
Pages come out in the order you list them. That means 5, 1, 3
doesn’t just select three pages — it puts page 5 first. Reordering is a
side effect of asking for pages out of sequence, and it’s often quicker than
opening a full editor.
Reversing a backwards scan
Here’s the trick worth knowing. Sheet-fed scanners frequently produce a PDF in reverse order — page one last — because of the way the pages land in the output tray. A descending range fixes it in one step:
20-1That reads the document from the last page to the first and writes a new PDF in the corrected order. No page-by-page dragging.
Step by step
- Open Split PDF and choose your file. The tool reads it and tells you how many pages it has.
- Pick extract a range or one file per page.
- If you’re extracting, type the pages you want — the box is pre-filled with the whole document.
- Click Split PDF, then download the result.
If you chose one-file-per-page, you’ll get a download button for each file plus a download all button that triggers them in sequence.
Does splitting lose quality?
No — and it’s worth understanding why, because it’s the opposite of what happens with images. Splitting a PDF copies the existing page objects into a new document. Nothing is rendered, redrawn, or re-compressed. Text remains real text you can select and search, vector graphics stay vector, and embedded images keep the exact resolution they had.
This is different from compressing an image, where the file genuinely is re-encoded and quality is a deliberate trade-off. A split page is the same page.
FAQ
Does splitting a PDF reduce its quality?
No. Splitting copies the original page objects into a new document without redrawing or re-compressing anything. Text stays selectable, images keep their original resolution, and the pages you keep are byte-for-byte the same content as the original.
How do I extract just one page?
Type that single page number on its own — for example 7. You can
also mix single pages and ranges in one go, such as 1-3, 7, 12-14.
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
No. An encrypted PDF has to be decrypted before its pages can be copied, and this tool cannot do that. Open the file in a PDF reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, then split that copy.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. The whole split runs in your browser using JavaScript. Your PDF is read from disk into memory, processed locally, and the result is handed straight back to you — nothing is transmitted or stored anywhere.
Related guides
- How to delete, reorder and rotate PDF pages — when you need to edit rather than extract.
- How to merge PDF files — the opposite operation.
- How to convert JPG to PDF — build a PDF from photos or scans.
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