Split PDF Online

How to split a PDF into separate files

A single big PDF is often more than anyone needs. Maybe you want to share just one chapter, break a scanned bundle into individual documents, or trim a 200-page report into manageable sections. This tool extracts the pages you specify into separate PDFs and hands them back as a ZIP — all processed in your browser, with nothing uploaded.

Two ways to split

By ranges gives you precise control: list the exact pages or spans you want, and each entry becomes its own output file. By every N pages is the fast path for chopping a long document into uniform pieces — set the chunk size and the tool walks through the whole file in equal sections. Pick ranges when the structure is irregular, and chunks when you just need even slices.

Writing precise ranges

Ranges are a comma-separated list. On a 20-page document, 1-5, 6-10, 11-20 produces three PDFs matching three chapters. A single number extracts one page on its own. The tool checks every range against the real page count, so an out-of-bounds entry is caught before anything is generated. The output PDFs are named by their range, making them easy to identify after unzipping.

When splitting beats deleting

Reach for the splitter whenever you want to keep selected pages as standalone files rather than throw pages away. Typical uses include separating invoices that were scanned into one file, isolating a single form from a packet, distributing one section of a report to different teams, or breaking an e-book into chapters. If instead you only want to drop a few unwanted pages, the Delete Pages tool is simpler.

Why splitting locally matters

The whole point of splitting is often to hand different sections to different people — one invoice to each client, one chapter to each reviewer. Doing that on a remote server would mean the entire combined document, including the parts you are trying to keep separate, gets uploaded whole. Here the extraction and the ZIP packing both happen in your tab, so nothing leaves your machine and each recipient only ever receives the slice you actually send them.

Quality and limitations

Extraction is lossless: each page is copied object-for-object, so the text remains selectable and the images keep their full resolution — nothing is re-encoded. The one thing that does not survive is a cross-range reference. If page 3 carried an internal link or a bookmark pointing to page 40, and you extract pages 1–5 into their own file, that link now points at nothing because page 40 was left behind. Splitting along the document's natural section boundaries keeps such references self-contained.

Related PDF tools

• Merge PDF — recombine the pieces, or join split files in a new order.
• Delete PDF Pages — discard unwanted pages instead of extracting.
• Compress PDF — shrink the resulting files for easy sharing.
• Rotate PDF — fix the orientation of an extracted page.