Split PDF
Pull out a page range into a new PDF, or split every page into its own file. Processed entirely in your browser.
- Select one PDF. The tool reads it locally and shows the total page count.
- To pull out specific pages, type a range such as 1-3 or 2,4,6 and click Extract Range as New PDF.
- To turn every page into its own separate PDF, click Split Every Page — you will get a ZIP file containing all of them.
Two different jobs people call “splitting”
“Split a PDF” usually means one of two things, and this tool does both. The first is extraction: you have a 60-page report and you need pages 12 to 18 as their own document to send to someone. Type 12-18 in the range box and you get exactly those seven pages in a new PDF, with the original untouched on your disk.
The second is bursting: you have a 30-page scan of separate receipts and you want thirty individual files. That is what Split Every Page does — it produces a ZIP archive containing page-01.pdf through page-30.pdf, ready to unzip and file individually.
Writing page ranges
The range box accepts a few notations, and you can mix them freely:
5— just page five on its own.1-3— a continuous run of pages, inclusive of both ends.2,4,6— specific non-adjacent pages.1-3, 8, 14-16— any combination, all collected into one output file.
Page numbers refer to the physical position in the document, counting from one — the first sheet is page 1 even if the printed number on it says “iv” or “23”. Numbers outside the document's actual range are ignored rather than causing an error, and pages always come out in ascending order regardless of the order you type them in.
Why do it in the browser
The documents people most often need to split are exactly the ones you would least like to hand to a stranger's server: a bank statement where you need one month, a contract where you need one clause, a medical record, a passport scan for a visa application. Because this tool runs the split with the open-source pdf-lib library inside your own browser tab, the file never leaves your device — there is nothing to upload, nothing retained afterwards, and no privacy policy you need to read to find out what happens to it.
What happens to the original
Nothing. The tool reads your file and writes a brand-new one to your Downloads folder; the PDF you selected is never modified or moved. If you want to remove a few pages from a document while keeping the rest as a single file, the Remove PDF pages tool is a more direct route than extracting everything you want to keep.