Split PDF
Split PDF pulls the pages you want out of a document, or breaks it into one file per page. Type a range like 3-8, a list like 1,4,9, or any mix of the two. The pages you name are copied into a new PDF with no loss of quality.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded.
PDFAbout splitting PDFs
Ranges accept single pages, spans and lists in combination, so
1,4,7-9 is a valid request for five pages. The order you type is
the order you get, which turns the range box into a reordering tool as well
as an extraction one: entering 3,1,2 produces a document with
those pages in that sequence. A backwards scan can be reversed in a single
step by counting down.
As with merging, pages are copied rather than re-encoded, so extracted pages are identical to the originals and text stays selectable. "One file per page" does the same thing once per page and hands you the files individually; because browsers discard a burst of downloads fired in the same instant, they are released in sequence rather than all at once.
Common questions
- What page-range syntax can I use?
- Single pages, spans and lists, mixed freely. 5 extracts one page, 3-8 extracts six, and 1,4,7-9 extracts five. Spaces are ignored. Page numbers are the ones you see in a reader, starting at 1 rather than 0, and a range that runs past the end of the document is reported as an error rather than silently trimmed.
- Does the order I type the pages in matter?
- Yes, and it is useful. Pages come out in the order you name them, so 3,1,2 produces a document in that sequence rather than sorted. This makes the range box a reordering tool: a scan that came out backwards can be fixed by counting down from the last page, without needing a separate step.
- Are the extracted pages lower quality than the original?
- No. The pages are copied into a new document as objects rather than re-rendered, so an extracted page is identical to the page it came from. Text stays selectable, and images carry no additional compression. The extracted file is smaller only because it contains fewer pages.
- Why is my split file almost as large as the original?
- Because PDFs share resources between pages. A font embedded once and used across the document, or an image reused on many pages, has to travel with any page that references it. Extracting two pages from a report that embeds several large fonts can therefore produce a file much bigger than two-hundredths of the original.