PDF Splitter
Split a PDF by page ranges or extract specific pages.
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Split PDF files by page range or extract pages
Whether you need to extract a single chapter from a long report, pull out specific invoice pages from a year-end statement, or break a large scanned document into smaller parts for email, this free PDF splitter handles it all in your browser. No file upload, no account, no size limit beyond your device's available memory.
Three ways to split a PDF
This tool supports three splitting modes. Page ranges let you specify exactly which pages go into each output file — for example "1-3, 5, 8-12" creates two PDFs. Split every N pages automatically divides a document into equal chunks, useful for batching scanned pages into separate records. Extract specific pages lets you cherry-pick non-contiguous pages and download them as a new PDF, ideal for pulling out appendices or signature pages.
Common use cases
Splitting PDFs is useful in many everyday situations: extracting a single chapter from an e-book or report to share without distributing the full document, separating a multi-month bank statement into individual months for accounting, pulling out relevant pages from a legal contract for review, breaking a large scanned batch into individual records, and extracting a certificate or credential page from a longer document for submission.
Do split PDFs keep original quality?
Yes. This tool uses pdf-lib to extract pages without re-rendering them, so text remains selectable and searchable, images retain their original resolution, embedded fonts are preserved, and there is no quality loss from re-compression. The only difference between a split page and the original is that it is now a standalone document with its own page numbering starting at 1.
Privacy — your PDFs stay on your device
All splitting is performed client-side in your browser. Your PDF is read into browser memory, processed with JavaScript, and written back out as a downloadable file — none of this involves a network request to our servers. The tool is safe for confidential legal, medical, and financial documents.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I split a PDF into individual pages?
- Use the 'Every N pages' mode and set N to 1. This creates one separate PDF file for each page in the document. All single-page PDFs are downloaded sequentially — most browsers will ask you once to allow multiple downloads. This is useful for splitting scanned document sets or archiving individual pages.
- Can I extract specific pages from a PDF?
- Yes. Use 'Extract pages' mode and enter the page numbers you want, separated by commas or as ranges — for example, '1, 3, 5-8'. All specified pages are combined into a single output PDF in the order you entered them. This is useful for creating an excerpt or pulling out selected chapters from a larger document.
- What is the 'By ranges' mode?
- By ranges mode lets you define multiple page groups separated by commas — for example, '1-3, 4-6, 7-10'. Each group is saved as its own separate PDF file. This is useful when you have combined several documents into one PDF and want to split them back into their original sections, each as an independent file.