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Split PDF

Break a PDF apart right in your browser — split every page into its own file, split by custom page ranges, or extract specific pages, then download everything as a ZIP. Nothing is ever uploaded to a server.

Try:

Drag and drop a PDF file here, or click below to browse.

How To Use

  1. 1.Drag and drop a single PDF file onto the upload area, or click it to browse your device — the page count appears as soon as it finishes loading.
  2. 2.Choose a split mode: Split Every Page turns each page into its own PDF, Split By Range breaks the document into multiple files along page ranges you define, and Extract Pages pulls a specific set of pages into one new file.
  3. 3.For Split By Range or Extract Pages, type the pages or ranges you want using a comma-separated list, like 1-3, 4-6 for ranges or 1, 3, 5-7 for extracting individual and grouped pages.
  4. 4.Click Split PDF to process the file — this happens instantly in your browser for typical documents.
  5. 5.Download an individual result file directly, or click Download All as ZIP to get every resulting file in one archive.
  6. 6.Use Reset to clear the current file and results and start over with a different PDF or split mode.

Examples

6-page sample PDF
Loads a small generated 6-page PDF so you can try every split mode without your own file.

About Split PDF

Why Split a PDF?

Long PDFs often bundle content that different people or systems only need part of — a single scanned document containing several unrelated forms, a report where only one chapter is relevant to a given reader, or a multi-page contract where you only need to send the signature page separately. Splitting lets you pull exactly the pages that matter out of a larger document, or break one large file into smaller, more manageable pieces without re-scanning or re-creating anything.

This comes up constantly in ordinary work: separating individual invoices that were scanned together in one batch, pulling a single chapter out of a long manual, extracting just the signed pages of an agreement for a records system, or breaking a large report into per-section files so each department only receives what applies to them. In every case, splitting turns one unwieldy file into exactly the set of files you actually need.

How PDF Splitting Works

A PDF is a structured document made up of individually addressable pages, each referencing its own content, fonts, and images. Splitting works by opening the source file, then building one or more brand-new PDF documents that each copy a chosen subset of those page objects across — content, formatting, and all — rather than rendering pages as images and reassembling them. Because the actual page objects are copied directly, there's no quality loss and no change to how selectable text or vector graphics behave in any resulting file.

When a split produces multiple files, this tool also bundles them into a single ZIP archive using a JavaScript ZIP library, so you can download everything in one action instead of triggering a separate download for every output file. Every step — reading the source PDF, building the new documents, and compressing them into a ZIP — runs directly in your browser's JavaScript engine.

Choosing the Right Split Mode

Split Every Page is the right choice when you need maximum granularity with zero setup — every page becomes its own file, which is ideal for feeding a document into a page-by-page workflow or fully separating a scanned batch of unrelated single-page documents. Split By Range is the right choice when a document has a natural multi-page structure you want to preserve as separate pieces, like splitting a bound report into its individual chapters or sections, each still a multi-page PDF in its own right.

Extract Pages is the right choice when you only care about a subset of pages and don't need the rest split up at all — you get one clean file containing exactly the pages you listed, with everything else discarded, which is the fastest path when, for example, you only need pages 4 and 9-11 out of a 40-page document and have no interest in the remaining pages in any form.

Tips for Splitting Cleanly

Check the page count shown after your file loads before typing a range — it's the quickest way to confirm you're working with the document you intended, especially when handling several similarly named files. When splitting by range, plan your ranges so they cover the pages you care about without gaps or unwanted overlap; the tool doesn't require ranges to be contiguous or non-overlapping, so you can deliberately produce overlapping pieces if that's genuinely what you need, but double-check the numbers if that wasn't your intent.

For Extract Pages, remember that the output always follows page order regardless of the order you typed pages in — listing 9, 1, 5 produces the same result as 1, 5, 9, since the tool sorts and deduplicates automatically. If you need pages in a specific non-sequential reading order in one file, split them out individually first and then use a Merge PDF tool to combine them in exactly the order you want.

FAQs

No. Reading your PDF, splitting it into new documents, and packaging the results into a ZIP file all happen entirely inside your browser using JavaScript PDF and ZIP libraries, with no server-side component involved in processing your file at any point. This means you can safely split confidential contracts, medical records, or financial statements without any of that content ever leaving your device. You can confirm this yourself by opening your browser's developer tools and watching the network tab while you split a file — you won't see any outgoing requests carrying PDF data, and splitting still works even without an internet connection once the page has loaded.

Split By Range produces multiple output files, one for each range you specify — entering 1-3, 4-6 gives you two separate PDFs, one containing pages 1 through 3 and another containing pages 4 through 6. Extract Pages instead produces a single output file containing only the pages you list, in page order — entering 1, 3, 5-7 gives you one PDF containing pages 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7, with every other page dropped. Use Split By Range when you want to break a document into several standalone pieces (like separating chapters), and use Extract Pages when you want to pull out a subset of pages into one file (like grabbing just the pages relevant to you from a much longer document).

Yes — that's exactly what Split Every Page mode does, with no range typing required. Select it and click Split PDF, and every page in the document becomes its own individually numbered PDF file (page-1.pdf, page-2.pdf, and so on), ready to download individually or as a single ZIP archive. This is the fastest option when you need each page fully separated, such as preparing individual pages for separate distribution or feeding a document into a workflow that expects one PDF per page.

Separate multiple pages or ranges with commas. A single number like 5 refers to just that page. A range like 2-4 refers to pages 2 through 4 inclusive. You can mix both in one entry, such as 1, 3-5, 9, which is valid input for Extract Pages mode. Ranges must stay within your PDF's actual page count and the first number in a range must be less than or equal to the second — if you enter something invalid, like a range that goes past the last page or has the numbers reversed, the tool tells you exactly which part of your input needs fixing before it will process anything.

No — splitting copies each page exactly as it exists in the original file, including all text, images, fonts, and vector graphics, with no re-encoding or quality loss of any kind. This works at the PDF page-object level rather than by rendering pages as images, so a split page looks pixel-for-pixel identical to that same page in the original document. Each resulting file is a fully standard, valid PDF that opens normally in any PDF reader, completely independent of the file it was split from.

Yes — whenever a split produces more than one file, a Download All as ZIP button appears alongside the individual file list. Clicking it packages every resulting PDF into a single .zip archive and downloads that one file, which is far more convenient than clicking Download on each file individually when a document has been split into many pieces, such as splitting a 20-page PDF into 20 separate one-page files.

This tool can open and split many encrypted PDFs automatically, since the underlying library is configured to ignore standard PDF encryption when reading a file's pages. That said, some PDFs use encryption methods or permission restrictions strong enough that a browser-based tool genuinely cannot open them without the correct password. If your file fails to load, the most reliable fix is to remove its password protection first using your PDF viewer's 'remove security' option (available in Adobe Acrobat and most other full-featured PDF readers once you've entered the correct password), then split the now-unprotected file normally.

There's no artificial limit built into the tool, but because everything runs in your browser's memory rather than being streamed to a server, very large files or documents with an unusually high page count can use a meaningful amount of RAM while splitting — particularly with Split Every Page on a document with hundreds of pages, since every page becomes its own in-memory PDF before being zipped. Typical documents, from a few pages up to a few hundred, split quickly on virtually any modern device; for extremely large source files, splitting by range into a handful of pieces rather than splitting every single page will generally feel more responsive.

Nothing is retained anywhere. Because splitting happens entirely in your browser's memory with no server storage, database, or persistent browser storage involved, closing the tab, refreshing the page, or navigating away immediately and permanently discards your uploaded file and any split results you haven't yet downloaded. Make sure to download your results (individually or as a ZIP) before leaving the page, since there's no way to recover a session afterward — by design, nothing about your documents is ever stored anywhere outside your device's memory for the brief time the tab is open.

Related Tools

Split PDF pulls pages out of a document. These related PDF tools cover the rest of a typical PDF workflow — recombining pages, shrinking file size, and converting to and from images.

Merge PDF
PDFCombine split files — or any other PDFs — back into a single document.
Compress PDF
PDFShrink a split PDF's file size before sharing or archiving it.
PDF to Image
PDFConvert a split page into a JPG or PNG image.
Image to PDF
PDFTurn a batch of images into a new PDF you can split or merge later.