Tools / Split PDF
Split PDF
Take a range of pages out, or break a file into its pages.
- This tool has no upload step
- This browser-only engine does not send your file
- Every tool driven in a browser each release
Choose a PDF
or drop them here
How it works
- Add the PDF.
- Choose a range of pages, or ask for every page as its own file.
- Download the result. A range comes back as one PDF, every page comes back as a zip.
Taking out only what you were asked for
Sending twenty pages when somebody asked for two is not thoroughness, it is a privacy problem you created.
Count the pages as the reader sees them
Page numbers printed on the document often start after a cover sheet. The range here is the position in the file, not the number printed at the bottom.
A range comes back as one PDF
Ask for pages 4 to 6 and you get a single file of three pages, which is usually what an office wants as an attachment.
Every page as its own file comes back as a zip
Useful for filing, awkward to email. Choose it when you are storing, not when you are sending.
Read the result before you send it
The commonest mistake is an off by one range that includes the page you were trying to leave out.
Where this is the wrong tool. Splitting copies whole pages. It cannot take half a page, and it cannot remove a paragraph from a page you are keeping. To take words out, use Redact, which removes them rather than hiding them.
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Questions
Do my files get uploaded?
No. The pages are taken out in this page, in your browser. There is no upload step, and there is no server here that could receive one.
Does splitting make the text stop being selectable?
No. The pages are copied across as they are, so text stays text and nothing is re-compressed. A page taken out of a contract is still the page, not a picture of it.
Can I take out pages that are not next to each other?
Not in one go. Choose the first range, download it, then choose the next. A single range is what almost every request for this is, and a page picker that handles a four hundred page file without exhausting a phone is a different tool.
What comes back if I ask for every page?
A zip, with one PDF per page, numbered so they stay in order. Each file is a real PDF with its text intact.
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
Not directly, and it is refused rather than worked around. Writing its pages into a new file would quietly strip the protection somebody chose to put on it. Open it with its password, save an unprotected copy, then split that.
Is there a page limit?
None is imposed. Every page written becomes a small PDF held in memory until the zip is built, so a four hundred page file asked for one page at a time will use real memory. A range is far cheaper than bursting the whole file.
Does it work without a connection?
Opening the page needs one, and so does the first split, because that is when this site hands over the PDF writer. The work itself uses no network, and your file is never sent anywhere either way.