Split a PDF into separate PDF files: a page range, every page, or several ranges at once. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
No file selected yet. Splitting happens in your browser — your file is never uploaded.
1-3 keeps pages 1 to 3. You can also write 2,5,8-10.Choose a PDF, pick a split mode, then click Split PDF.
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PDF Split is a free online tool that cuts one PDF into separate PDF files, not pictures of pages but real documents you can open, print and send on. Pull out a page range, break the file into one document per page, or carve it into several documents at once, then download each result.
It earns its keep when only part of a document is wanted: the three pages of a lease the bank actually asked for, a 40-page scan that has to become one file per invoice, a single chapter going to a proofreader, or a combined statement that should be filed one month at a time. The Pages box takes the shorthand you would write by hand, so 1-3 keeps the first three pages and 2,5,8-10 keeps page 2, page 5 and pages 8 through 10. The page count appears beside the file name as soon as you choose it, so the numbering can be checked before you commit.
Your document is opened and rebuilt inside your own browser, which means the lease, the statement or the medical report is read from your disk and never sent here. Only the pages you asked for are copied into each new file; the rest of the document is simply never written. PDF Merge is the return trip when the pieces have to go back together, and PDF to Image is the one to reach for if you want PNG or JPG files out rather than PDFs. The splitting library loads from a public CDN when you pick a file, so the page needs a connection to do its work.
Click Choose PDF File and pick the document. Its page count and size appear underneath as soon as it has been read, so you know which page numbers are valid.
Split Mode offers three choices: extract a page range into one PDF, split every page into its own PDF, or split into several PDFs by ranges. The Pages box changes meaning with your choice and switches off entirely for the every-page mode.
For a single extract, write 1-3 or 2,5,8-10. In the several-PDFs mode each comma-separated range becomes its own file, so 1-3, 4-6 produces two documents.
Click Split PDF. A download button appears for each finished file, labelled with its pages and size; click each one to save it. Clear resets the file and the Pages box.
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Absolutely. All tools run entirely in your browser (client-side). Your data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers.
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They are page selections. 1-3 means pages one to three inclusive, and 2,5,8-10 means page two, page five and pages eight to ten. Spaces are ignored and a page listed twice is only taken once. The numbers are the PDF's own page numbers, counting from one.
Extracting a page range builds one new PDF from the pages you list. Splitting every page makes one file per page and ignores the Pages box. Splitting by ranges treats each comma-separated range as its own document, so 1-3, 4-6 gives you two files in one run.
As PDFs. Each file can be opened, printed, signed and forwarded exactly like the original, and the text inside it is still selectable. If you want PNG or JPG pictures of the pages instead, that is a different job and the PDF to Image tool is the one that does it.
Choose the mode that splits into several PDFs by ranges and give it two ranges. For a 20-page document, 1-10, 11-20 produces two files in one run. The page count shown beside the file name after you pick the file tells you where the halfway point is.
Nothing breaks. A range running past the end is trimmed to the last real page, and a single page number that does not exist is ignored. If none of your selection matches, the result line says so and reminds you how many pages the document actually contains.
Yes. Pages are copied rather than redrawn, so each one keeps its dimensions, fonts, images and selectable text. A sheet from an A3 drawing set is still A3 after the split instead of being squeezed onto letter-sized paper, and nothing is recompressed along the way.
Not directly. Any password protection, even a restriction password that lets the file open normally, encrypts the page contents, so split pages would come out blank. The tool says the file is password protected as soon as you choose it and does not split it. Save an unlocked copy with the PDF Password Helper tool and split that copy; its pages are rebuilt as images, so their text is no longer selectable.
There is no fixed limit: a 200-page document gives you 200 download buttons. Each file is built in your browser, so a very long document takes a moment and uses memory while it works. You download them one at a time, as there is no single zip archive at the end.