Split PDF

The pages you pick are written out into new documents exactly as they were. Cut at specific pages, make one file per page, or break a long document into equal chunks. Nothing about the pages themselves changes.

How to use it

1 Add the PDF and look through the page thumbnails.
2 Choose to split by ranges, at every page, or every N pages.
3 Name the ranges if you want meaningful filenames.
4 Split and download the resulting files as a ZIP.

Formats this tool accepts

Each one has a reference page covering what it stores and where it is supported.

PDF Portable Document Format

Questions about split pdf

Does splitting reduce quality?

No. The pages are copied intact, so each output is identical to the corresponding pages of the original.

Why is each split file nearly as large as the original?

Fonts and shared resources are embedded once per document, so every output has to carry the ones its pages use. A one page extract from a font-heavy report can still be a few hundred kilobytes.

Can I pull out a single page?

Yes, that is the extract pages tool, which is the same operation with a single range. Use split when you want the whole document divided.

Are my files uploaded to a server?

No. The whole thing runs inside the browser tab you already have open. Your file is read straight from your own disk, worked on there, and handed back as a download. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored, and there is no account and no queue.

Is there a file size limit?

There is no server-side limit because there is no server. The practical ceiling is your device memory, since the file and its output both have to fit in the tab. Files up to a few hundred megabytes are usually fine on a desktop machine, while phones and older laptops will struggle sooner. If a large file fails, close other tabs and try again.

Does it work offline?

Yes, once the page has loaded once. The engine is cached by the browser, so you can turn off your connection, reload the page and keep working. That is a useful side effect of doing the processing locally rather than a separate offline mode you have to enable.