Split PDF — extract or separate pages online
Extract a page range from a PDF, or split it into one file per page. Free, unlimited, watermark-free, and the document never leaves your computer.
e.g. 1-3, 5, 8-10
About the Split PDF tool
Splitting a PDF usually means one of two quite different things. Sometimes you need a few specific pages out of a long document — the two pages of a lease that mention the deposit, the invoice buried at page 40 of a statement, the chapter you actually want to print. Other times you need the document broken apart entirely, one file per page, because each page is a separate record that has to be filed or sent individually.
This tool does both. Give it a page range and it extracts exactly those pages into one new PDF; ask it to split completely and it produces a file for every page. In both cases the pages are copied intact rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable, images keep their resolution, and nothing is re-compressed or degraded on the way through.
Sending only the relevant pages is often the safer choice as well as the tidier one. A 90-page bank statement contains a great deal you have no reason to hand over when a landlord asked for proof of three payments. Extracting the pages that answer the question, rather than forwarding the whole file, is the simplest form of data minimisation there is — and it removes the risk of someone reading further than you intended.
Page numbering is worth a moment of care. The numbers you type refer to positions in the file, counting from one, which is not always the number printed on the page — documents with cover pages, roman-numeraled front matter or an offset from a previous merge will disagree. Check where the page actually sits in your reader before entering a range, particularly on long documents where being two out is easy and not obvious.
How it works
Open your PDF
Drop the file in. The total page count is shown, so you can see the range you have to work within.
Choose what to extract
Enter individual pages, a range such as 5-12, or a mixture. Or split the document into one file per page.
Download the result
Save the extracted pages. The original document is untouched, so you can go back and take a different range.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I write a page range?
- Use a hyphen for a continuous run, such as 5-12, and commas to combine selections, such as 1, 4, 9-15. Pages are counted from the start of the file, so page 1 is the very first page even if it is a cover with no number printed on it. Check the position in your PDF reader if the document has front matter.
- Can I split into one file per page?
- Yes. That mode produces a separate PDF for every page in the document, which is what you want when each page is an independent record — separate invoices scanned in one pass, individual certificates, or pages that each need to go to a different person. For a handful of pages, extracting a range is usually tidier.
- Does splitting reduce quality?
- No. Pages are copied from the source document rather than re-rendered, so text remains real selectable text, images keep their original resolution, and nothing is re-compressed. The extracted file is byte-for-byte equivalent in content to the pages it came from, just without the ones you left behind.
- Why is my one-page extract almost as big as the original?
- Because fonts and images embedded in a PDF are shared across the whole document, and anything a page references has to come with it. A single page using a large embedded font set or a high-resolution background carries all of that. It is normal, and not a sign the extraction failed.
- Are my documents uploaded anywhere?
- No. The PDF is parsed and the new file assembled entirely inside your browser tab, so the document never crosses the network. That matters here more than on most tools, since the files people split tend to be contracts, statements and medical records — exactly the documents you would not want sitting on an unknown server.
- Can I split a password-protected PDF?
- Not while it is still encrypted, because the contents cannot be read without the password. Open it in your usual reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and split that. Documents that merely restrict printing or editing rather than opening will normally work directly.
- What happens to bookmarks and links?
- The visible content of each page transfers faithfully. Document-level structures such as the bookmark tree and internal links that point at pages you did not extract cannot survive in a meaningful form, since their targets are no longer there. If the outline matters, check the extracted file before circulating it.