PDF Splitter
Extract individual pages or ranges from a PDF document.
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🔒 Processed entirely in your browser — never uploadedWhat This Tool Does
Splits a PDF into individual pages or custom page ranges entirely in your browser — no server upload needed. Extract one chapter, one form, or any page range from a large document.
Who This Is For
- Anyone who receives a multi-document PDF bundle and needs to extract specific contracts or forms
- Legal and administrative professionals separating chapters or sections from large document packs
- Anyone splitting a textbook PDF into individual chapters for easier reading or sharing
- Developers testing PDF processing tools who need specific page ranges as input
Example: Input: A 120-page contract bundle, need only pages 45–62 → Output: An 18-page PDF containing exactly the requested pages, extracted cleanly without affecting the original
✓ Done!
Your file is ready.
💡 After splitting, you may want to merge specific extracted pages with content from other PDFs — use PDF Merger to combine them. For reducing the size of extracted page files, the PDF Compressor optimizes each split PDF independently. To convert individual extracted pages to images, PDF to Image handles single-page PDFs.
How to Split a PDF
- Upload your PDF by clicking the upload area or dragging it onto the page.
- Choose your split mode: Extract all pages (one file per page) or Custom range (specify page numbers or ranges like 1-3, 5, 7-9).
- Click Split. Each resulting PDF is available to download individually, or download all as a ZIP.
- No signup required, and your PDF never leaves your browser.
The tool preserves the original PDF content, fonts, and formatting in each output file.
When to Split a PDF
- Extract a single chapter from a book — if you have a 300-page PDF and only need pages 42–67, split out that range.
- Separate a multi-section document — contracts, reports, and proposals often contain sections that need to be distributed to different parties.
- Email attachment size limits — if a PDF is too large to email, split it into parts that fit within the limit.
- Upload file size restrictions — many platforms restrict upload sizes. Splitting a document lets you upload in segments.
- Extract a blank page — printers and scanners sometimes produce scanned PDFs with blank pages. Split to identify and remove them.
- Archive individual pages — split a scanned archive into individual document files for separate storage and retrieval.
Page Range Syntax
| Input | Result |
|---|---|
1 | Page 1 only |
1-5 | Pages 1 through 5 |
1,3,5 | Pages 1, 3, and 5 individually |
1-3, 5, 7-9 | Pages 1–3, page 5, pages 7–9 |
-1 | Last page only |
Page numbers refer to the actual page count in the PDF, not any printed page numbers that might appear in the document footer.
Split vs Extract: What's the Difference?
Splitting divides a PDF into multiple smaller PDFs based on page boundaries. The original document is divided in place.
Extracting copies specific pages into a new PDF, leaving the original unchanged. Functionally, this tool does both — you choose which pages go into each output file.
To merge separate PDFs back into one document, use the PDF Merger.
Related Guides & Tutorials
Related PDF Tools
Splitting works in combination with the rest of the PDF toolkit:
- Merge PDFs — combine the split sections back in a different order
- Compress each split section — individual sections are easier to compress and share
- Convert a split section to Word for editing specific chapters or clauses
- Export pages as images — convert split pages to PNG or JPG for use in other documents
- Extract tables from split pages — isolate the data-heavy section before converting to Excel
Frequently Asked Questions
How It Works
When to Use This Tool
- →Extracting a specific chapter or section from a long report
- →Pulling one invoice from a multi-invoice PDF statement
- →Separating a combined document into individual files to send to different recipients
- →Extracting only the pages you need before merging with another document
🔒 Privacy & Security
PDF splitting uses PDF.js to parse the file in your browser — no PDF is uploaded. For documents containing confidential sections you're splitting to share selectively, local processing ensures only you see the full file.
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