PDF Splitter
Split PDF by page number, range or select pages visually.
Drag & drop your PDF here
or click to select file
Select pages or enter a range to enable splitting
User Guide
Add your PDF
Drag it onto the upload area or click to browse. Every page is then rendered as a numbered thumbnail, so you can see what you are working with rather than guessing at page numbers.
Choose how to select
Select pages lets you click thumbnails. Enter page ranges takes typed input like 1-3, 7, 12-15. Use ranges for long documents where clicking forty thumbnails is slower than typing.
Click the pages you want
Selected pages are highlighted and counted as you go. Select all and Clear are there for when you want most of a document rather than a few pages.
Check the count before extracting
The running total tells you how many pages the result will have. It is the quickest way to catch an accidental click before you download anything.
Extract
The selected pages are copied into a new PDF in page order — not in the order you clicked them. Extraction is instant because nothing is uploaded.
Need each page as its own file?
This tool produces one PDF containing your selection. To get separate files, extract each page in turn, or use Organize PDF to rearrange pages within a single document.
About the Split PDF Tool
This tool pulls chosen pages out of a PDF and gives them back as a new document. It shows you every page as a thumbnail first, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Why the thumbnails matter
Most split tools ask you to type page numbers into a box. That works only if you already know which pages you want — and for a scanned bundle, a bank statement or a contract someone else assembled, you usually do not. Page 7 of the PDF is rarely page 7 of the printed document, because cover sheets, blank versos and inserted annexures all shift the count.
Rendering every page removes the guesswork. You click what you can see.
Two ways to choose
| Mode | Best when | How it behaves |
|---|---|---|
| Select pages | You need to see the pages to identify them | Click thumbnails; the count updates live |
| Enter page ranges | You already know the numbers, or there are many | Accepts 1-3, 7, 12-15 in any order |
Range input is forgiving by design. 5-3 is read as 3–5, duplicates are ignored, and anything past the end of the document is dropped rather than throwing an error. If a range matches no page at all you are told so, instead of being handed an empty PDF.
Pages always come out in document order. Selecting 9, then 2, then 5 produces a PDF with pages 2, 5 and 9 in that sequence — because a document assembled in click order is almost never what anyone wants.
Nothing is re-encoded
Splitting copies the page objects from the source into a new document, carrying their fonts, images and vector content with them. There is no re-rendering and no re-compression, so the extracted pages are byte-for-byte as good as the original: text stays selectable and searchable, vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom, and a 300 DPI scan is still 300 DPI.
The result is usually smaller than the source simply because it has fewer pages, though not always proportionally — a font used on one extracted page still has to be embedded in full.
What it will not do
Password-protected PDFs cannot be read until the protection is removed. Use Unlock PDF first, then split the result.
Separate files per page are not produced in one pass; the output is a single PDF containing your selection. Run the tool once per page if you need them apart.
The work happens in this browser tab. Your file is read from disk into the page’s memory, processed there and written back out as a download — it is never transmitted, so there is no upload wait, no size cap imposed by a server, and no copy of your document anywhere but your own device.
What people use it for
Pulling one statement out of a year of statements. Extracting the signed page of a contract to send on its own. Taking the three relevant pages from a forty-page report for a meeting. Separating an invoice from the delivery note it was scanned with. Removing a cover sheet before uploading a form.
If the goal is a smaller file rather than fewer pages, splitting first is usually the better move: it removes whole pages at no quality cost, where the PDF Compressor has to degrade what remains.
Frequently Asked Questions
About the Split PDF Tool
This tool pulls chosen pages out of a PDF and gives them back as a new document. It shows you every page as a thumbnail first, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Why the thumbnails matter
Most split tools ask you to type page numbers into a box. That works only if you already know which pages you want — and for a scanned bundle, a bank statement or a contract someone else assembled, you usually do not. Page 7 of the PDF is rarely page 7 of the printed document, because cover sheets, blank versos and inserted annexures all shift the count.
Rendering every page removes the guesswork. You click what you can see.
Two ways to choose
| Mode | Best when | How it behaves |
|---|---|---|
| Select pages | You need to see the pages to identify them | Click thumbnails; the count updates live |
| Enter page ranges | You already know the numbers, or there are many | Accepts 1-3, 7, 12-15 in any order |
Range input is forgiving by design. 5-3 is read as 3–5, duplicates are ignored, and anything past the end of the document is dropped rather than throwing an error. If a range matches no page at all you are told so, instead of being handed an empty PDF.
Pages always come out in document order. Selecting 9, then 2, then 5 produces a PDF with pages 2, 5 and 9 in that sequence — because a document assembled in click order is almost never what anyone wants.
Nothing is re-encoded
Splitting copies the page objects from the source into a new document, carrying their fonts, images and vector content with them. There is no re-rendering and no re-compression, so the extracted pages are byte-for-byte as good as the original: text stays selectable and searchable, vector graphics stay sharp at any zoom, and a 300 DPI scan is still 300 DPI.
The result is usually smaller than the source simply because it has fewer pages, though not always proportionally — a font used on one extracted page still has to be embedded in full.
What it will not do
Password-protected PDFs cannot be read until the protection is removed. Use Unlock PDF first, then split the result.
Separate files per page are not produced in one pass; the output is a single PDF containing your selection. Run the tool once per page if you need them apart.
The work happens in this browser tab. Your file is read from disk into the page’s memory, processed there and written back out as a download — it is never transmitted, so there is no upload wait, no size cap imposed by a server, and no copy of your document anywhere but your own device.
What people use it for
Pulling one statement out of a year of statements. Extracting the signed page of a contract to send on its own. Taking the three relevant pages from a forty-page report for a meeting. Separating an invoice from the delivery note it was scanned with. Removing a cover sheet before uploading a form.
If the goal is a smaller file rather than fewer pages, splitting first is usually the better move: it removes whole pages at no quality cost, where the PDF Compressor has to degrade what remains.
