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Free Online PDF Splitter, Extract Pages, Ranges & Single Files

Split a PDF into separate files or pull out only the pages you need. Pick page ranges like 1-3 and 7, save every page as its own file, or keep the selection as one shorter document. Page thumbnails let you check before you download, and nothing is ever sent to a server.

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Free Online PDF Splitter, Extract Pages, Ranges & Single Files

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Split a PDF File Drag and drop your PDF here to pull out pages or cut it into parts. It is opened by your browser, not by a server. Select a PDF File Up to 200 MB • 5,000 pages • nothing is uploaded

document.pdf

How do you want to cut it?

Pages to keep Single pages, ranges, or words like odd, even and last.

Page order in the new file

Every page becomes its own PDF, named page-1.pdf, page-2.pdf and so on, delivered together in a ZIP. Nothing to fill in here.

Page previews

Previews are off by default because the page renderer is a large download. Turn them on and you can click pages instead of typing numbers.

Output

File name

.pdf

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Is It Safe to Split a PDF Online?

A fair question, and the answer is checkable.

What happens to your file	Most PDF sites	This page
Where the file is opened	On their server	In your browser
Who else can read it	Whoever runs the server	Nobody, it never left
What happens afterwards	Deleted later, they say	There is nothing to delete
Works with the wifi off	No	Yes, once the page has loaded
Can you verify the claim	No, you have to trust it	Yes, see below

Check it yourself. Press F12 to open your browser tools and go to the Network tab. Drop a PDF in and split it. You will see the page fetch its own code, and nothing else: your file is never sent. For a stronger test, load this page, turn off your wifi, and split a document anyway. It still works, which would be impossible if a server were doing the job.

How to Split a PDF

Drop, choose, download. Your original is never touched.

Drop your PDF on the page Drag it in or click to browse. It is read in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and the page keeps working with the connection off.

Choose what kind of split you want Pulling a few pages out gives you one file. Cutting the document into parts gives you several, and those arrive as a ZIP.

Say which pages Type them as 1, 4, 7-9, or switch on previews and click the pages you want. Words like odd, even and last work too.

Check the summary before you commit The tool tells you how many pages and how many files you are about to get, so a typo in the page numbers shows up before the download does.

Download and keep the original The new file is built fresh and your original is untouched. Nothing here overwrites what you dropped in.

Writing the Page Numbers

Everything below assumes a 20 page document. Page 1 means page 1, the way you would count it.

What you type	What it means	You get
`5`	Page 5 on its own	1 page
`1, 4, 7`	Three separate pages	3 pages
`3-7`	Everything from 3 to 7, both included	5 pages
`1-3, 10, 15-20`	Ranges and single pages mixed	10 pages
`12-`	Page 12 to the end of the file	9 pages
`-4`	The start of the file up to page 4	4 pages
`7-3`	Backwards ranges are read as 3-7	5 pages
`odd`	Every odd numbered page	10 pages
`even`	Every even numbered page	10 pages
`last`	The final page, whatever its number	1 page
`all`	Every page in the file	20 pages

Spaces do not matter, and neither does the separator: commas, spaces and semicolons all work. A page number larger than the document is ignored rather than treated as an error, and the tool tells you it was ignored instead of quietly dropping it.

What to Know Before You Cut

Including the things this tool cannot do.

Your file never leaves this page. There is no upload, no server and no account. Open your browser tools, watch the network tab, and split a file: nothing goes out. That matters here more than on most tools, because the PDFs people cut up are usually contracts, statements and medical records.

Page 1 means page 1. Some tools count from zero and quietly hand you the wrong page. Everything on this page, in every box and every message, counts the way you do, starting at one.

Scanned pages stay scanned. If your PDF came from a scanner, each page is a picture rather than text. Splitting works perfectly, but you cannot search for a word to find the right page, so use previews instead.

A password protected PDF has to be opened first. This tool will not try to break one, and it will say so rather than failing silently. Unlock it, then come back.

A digital signature will not survive the cut. That is how PDF signatures work rather than a limitation here: the signature covers the whole document, so removing any page voids it. If a signed file matters, keep the original.

Form fields and bookmarks may not come along. Pages are copied one at a time, not the whole document structure, so interactive fields, links between pages and the bookmark tree can be left behind.

Splitting rarely shrinks a file as much as you expect. Fonts and images are often shared across the document, so five pages out of a hundred can still carry a lot of that shared weight. To make it smaller, compress after splitting.

More than one output arrives as a ZIP. Browsers block a page that tries to start twenty downloads at once, and twenty files falling into your downloads folder is unpleasant anyway. One archive is easier to check.

Nothing is re-rendered, so nothing degrades. The pages you keep are copied across exactly as they were. Text stays selectable, images keep their resolution, and the result is not a picture of your document.

Key Features & Capabilities

What this tool does, and what it deliberately does not.

Six ways to cut Extract chosen pages, split into ranges, chop every N pages, one file per page, cut once in two, or remove pages and keep the rest.

Click pages, do not count them Turn on previews and pick pages by looking at them. The renderer only loads when you ask for it, so the page stays fast for everyone else.

Page numbers that read naturally 1, 4, 7-9 works, so does 12- for "to the end", -4 for "from the start", and the words odd, even, first, last and all.

Tells you before, not after A live summary shows how many pages and how many files you will get, so a mistyped range is caught before you download anything.

Many files, one ZIP When a split produces several PDFs they come down as a single archive rather than twenty separate downloads your browser would block.

Nothing is uploaded The whole thing runs in your browser. No server, no account, no queue, and it keeps working offline once the page has loaded.

No watermark, no page cap The file you get out carries nothing this site added to it, and there is no daily limit waiting to appear after the third split.

Says what it cannot do Locked files, digital signatures and form fields are all explained on this page rather than discovered when the result disappoints you.

About the Split PDF Tool

Splitting a PDF sounds like one job and is really two. Sometimes you want a few pages out of a long document: the signature page from a contract, one statement from a year of them, the page a form actually needs. Other times you want the document broken into parts: a scanned stack that is really twelve separate letters, or a report that has to go to four people who should each see only their own section. The first gives you one file, the second gives you several, and this page does both because most people call both of them splitting.

What made this worth building as a browser tool rather than a website that processes files for you is the kind of document involved. People do not usually split holiday photos. They split contracts, bank statements, medical letters, tax papers and identity documents. Uploading those to a stranger's server to have a few pages removed is a real cost, and the usual reassurance, that the file will be deleted in an hour, is a promise rather than a property of the system. Here the file is opened by your own browser and never sent anywhere, which is something you can verify rather than something you have to believe.

The page numbers work the way people write them, which sounds obvious and often is not. Typing 1, 4, 7-9 does what it looks like. So does 12- for everything from page 12 onward, and -4 for the start of the document up to page 4. Odd, even, first and last are understood. A backwards range like 7-3 is read as 3 to 7 rather than thrown out, because that is clearly what was meant. And before anything downloads, the tool says how many pages and how many files you are about to get, so a typo shows up while it is still cheap to fix.

A few things are stated plainly rather than discovered afterwards. A password protected file has to be opened before it can be split. A digital signature does not survive any change to the document, which is how signatures work rather than a shortcoming here. Form fields and bookmarks may not follow the pages across. And splitting shrinks a file less than the page count suggests, because fonts and images are usually shared across the whole document. None of that stops the tool being useful, and knowing it beforehand is better than wondering later.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything worth knowing before you split a file.

It depends entirely on whether the file is uploaded, and that is a fair thing to be careful about, because the documents people split are usually contracts, bank statements, medical letters or identity papers. Most PDF websites send your file to their server, do the work there, and promise to delete it later. That is a promise about their behaviour. This page never sends the file anywhere. Everything happens in your browser using pdf-lib, and you can check it yourself: open your browser developer tools, go to the Network tab, and split a file. Nothing leaves. You can also disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it will still work.

Drop the file in, leave the mode on Extract pages, and type the page number on its own, for example 7. You get back a single page PDF. If you would rather look than count, switch on page previews and click the page you want. The original file is not changed in any way, so you can pull out a different page straight afterwards.

This is one of the things you never needed Acrobat for. Splitting a PDF is really just copying selected pages into a new document, which a modern browser can do on its own. There is nothing to install, no subscription, no trial that expires, and no sign up. Open the page, drop your file, choose the pages, download the result.

Extracting takes the pages you name and puts them into one new PDF: three pages out of twenty gives you a single three page file. Splitting cuts the document into several files: a twenty page document split every five pages gives you four separate PDFs. Both are on this page, because people use the word "split" for both, and the tool tells you which one you are about to do before you download.

The way you would say them out loud. 5 is one page. 1, 4, 7 is three pages. 3-7 is everything from 3 to 7 with both ends included. You can mix them: 1-3, 10, 15-20. 12- means from page 12 to the end and -4 means from the start to page 4. The words odd, even, first, last and all work as well, and a backwards range like 7-3 is read as 3 to 7 rather than rejected.

Because that split produced more than one PDF. Browsers block a page that tries to start many downloads at once, treating it as an attack, and even where it works, twenty files landing in your downloads folder at the same time is hard to sort out. A single archive keeps them together and in order. Modes that produce exactly one file, like Extract pages and Remove pages, always give you a plain PDF.

There is no limit imposed by this site, no daily quota and no account tier. The only real limit is your device: the whole file is held in memory while it is being worked on, so a very large document on an older phone can run out of room. The page accepts files up to 200 MB and up to 5,000 pages, which is well past what a browser will comfortably handle, and it warns you rather than freezing.

Less than most people expect. Fonts, embedded images and colour profiles are often shared across the whole document, so taking five pages out of a hundred can still carry a good deal of that shared weight with them. You will usually see some reduction, just not proportional to the number of pages. If size is the goal, split first and then run the result through a compressor.

Not directly. A protected PDF has its contents encrypted, and this tool does not attempt to get around that, which is deliberate rather than a missing feature. If it is your document and you know the password, remove the protection first and then split the open copy. If you do not know the password, no legitimate tool will help you.

No. The pages are copied across exactly as they are rather than being redrawn, so text stays as text and remains selectable and searchable, images keep their original resolution, and vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom. What you get is not a picture of your document. The one thing that does not survive is a digital signature, because a signature covers the whole file and any change breaks it.