Split PDF
Cut a document into separate files of a fixed length, or pull out a specific set of pages and keep them as one new PDF.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.
How to use Split PDF
- 1Pick a PDF, or drag it onto the box above.
- 2Choose whether to cut the file into parts or pull out certain pages.
- 3Set how many pages go in each file, or type the page numbers you want.
- 4Download the result. Splitting gives you one file per part.
Two different jobs
Splitting into separate files chops the document into equal runs. One page per file gives you every page on its own. Five pages per file gives you chunks of five, with whatever's left over in the last one. Each part comes out as a complete PDF with its page range in the filename, so you can tell them apart without opening them.
Pulling out pages works differently: you name the pages you want and get a single new document containing those and nothing else. That's the one you want when four pages of a forty-page report need to go to someone, and thirty-six separate files would be a nuisance for both of you.
Writing a page range
Type ranges the way you'd say them out loud. 1-3 for the first three pages. 7 on its own for a single page. Commas to combine them, so 1-3, 7, 12-15 works. If you want everything from page ten to the end, write 10- and skip the counting.
Pages always come out in document order no matter how you typed them, and naming the same page twice gets you one copy, not two. Ask for a page that isn't there and you'll be told how many pages the file actually has, rather than quietly receiving a file with pages missing.
What the parts keep
Each part is built by copying pages, so text stays selectable, images keep their quality, and page sizes don't change. The same caveat as merging applies here: bookmarks, form fields and the rest belong to the original document rather than to its pages, so the parts don't have them.
Limits
- 100 MB per file.
- A one-page document can't be split, though you can still pull pages out of it.
- Password-protected PDFs need unlocking first.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I get one file per page?
- Yes. Choose to split into separate files and set pages per file to 1. A hundred-page document gives you a hundred PDFs, each named with its page number.
- How do I pull out pages that aren't next to each other?
- Switch to extracting pages and list them with commas, like 2, 5, 9-11. They come back as one PDF, in page order.
- Does splitting hurt the quality?
- No. Pages are copied as they are, not re-rendered or compressed again, so a split page has exactly the same content as the original page.