Split PDF
Extract a page range, or split a PDF into separate one-page files.
About the Split PDF
Splitting extracts the pages you choose into a new document, leaving the original untouched. Ranges are written the way you would say them out loud — 1-3, 7, 12-15 — and the pages come out in the order the ranges are listed, so 5-6, 1-2 gives you a four-page file starting at page five.
The work runs in your browser with pdf-lib. Each selected page is copied into a fresh document with its content, fonts and images intact, then serialised back out. Because the copy is exact, extracting three pages from a 200-page report gives you those three pages at full quality rather than a re-rendered approximation.
One consequence worth knowing: fonts are embedded per document, so a three-page extract from a report using several typefaces can be larger than three-two-hundredths of the original. The font data has to travel with the pages that use it.
How it works
Drop in the PDF you want to split.
Choose whether to extract a range like 1-3, 8 or to burst every page into its own file.
Press Split, then download the result — a single PDF, or a ZIP when there is more than one.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I extract specific pages from a PDF?
- Enter the pages you want as a range list — 1-3, 7, 12-15 — and the tool builds a new document containing exactly those pages, in that order. The original file is not modified.
- Can I split one PDF into several separate files?
- Yes. Run the tool once per output: extract pages 1-10 and download, then extract 11-20 and download again. Each run produces an independent PDF, and the source stays loaded between runs.
- Does splitting a PDF reduce quality?
- No. The pages are copied byte-for-byte along with their fonts and images rather than being re-rendered, so an extracted page is identical to the page it came from.
- Why is my extracted file bigger than I expected?
- Fonts are embedded per document. If the pages you extracted use several typefaces, the full font data has to be embedded in the new file, which can make a short extract disproportionately large compared with the original's page count.
- What page numbers should I use?
- The numbers shown in your PDF reader, starting at 1 for the first page. If the document has a cover or roman-numeral front matter, count the physical pages rather than the printed numbers.
Privacy
Everything happens locally. Your files are read by your own browser, processed on your device, and never uploaded — closing the tab is all it takes to erase them.
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