Split PDF
Cut one PDF into several — page by page, in blocks, or at set ranges.
Everything runs inside your browser. Your files never leave your device.
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Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.
The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong. The tool itself is not guessing: it runs deterministic code on your device.
About the Split PDF
Splitting a PDF means taking one document and producing several. There are two quite different reasons to do it, and they want different behaviour: extracting a section to send on its own, or breaking a bundle into its constituent documents.
This handles both. Split at chosen page numbers to cut a document into sections, or split every page into its own file when a scanner has produced one PDF containing forty unrelated pages.
The privacy point is more pointed here than for most operations. Splitting is what you do to a bank statement to send one page to an accountant, to a medical report to share one result, to a contract to circulate one schedule. The whole purpose is that only part of it should travel — which makes uploading the complete document to a website in order to achieve that a very strange trade. Nothing here leaves your browser.
Page numbering follows what you see in the document rather than what a programmer would count from, so page 1 is the first page. Ranges can be written as 1-3, 7, 12- with the last meaning "to the end", which is the notation most people expect and the one printers use.
Each output keeps the page content exactly: text stays selectable, images stay at their original resolution, and nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed. What does not survive is anything document-wide — bookmarks pointing at pages now in a different file, and a signature that attested to the whole.
Output files are named after the source with a range suffix, so a split of forty pages is still navigable afterwards.
How to use it
- 1Drop in the PDF you want to split.
- 2Choose whether to split at particular pages or to separate every page into its own file.
- 3Enter the ranges using the page numbers shown in the document — 1-3, 7, 12- for “to the end”.
- 4Download the results individually, or as a zip when there are many.
Questions
- Does splitting reduce quality?
- No. The pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so text stays selectable and images keep their original resolution. It is a structural operation, not a conversion.
- How do I extract a single page?
- Enter that page number on its own. The extract-pages tool is the more direct route when pulling out a few specific pages rather than dividing the document.
- Is my document uploaded to be split?
- No. Which matters especially here, since the reason to split a document is usually that only part of it should be seen by someone. Uploading the whole thing to achieve that would defeat the purpose.
- What happens to bookmarks?
- Document-wide structures do not survive a split — a bookmark pointing at a page now in a different file has nothing to point at. Page content is preserved exactly; navigation built on top of the whole document is not.