How to use it
- Drop your PDF onto the box below. Its page count appears in the file list.
- Choose every page, or switch to a range and type something like 2-5, 8.
- Press Process files and download the result.
Two ways to split
Every page gives you one PDF per page, delivered together in a zip because a browser can only hand back a single file per download and a forty page document would otherwise mean forty separate downloads, most of which the browser would block. The names are numbered and zero padded, so page 2 sorts before page 10 in every file manager. A page range gives you one PDF containing exactly the pages you named.
How the range is read
Pages are counted from 1, the way they are printed rather than the way a programmer would count them. A dash means everything between the two numbers inclusive, so 2-5 is four pages. Commas separate the parts, spaces are ignored, and the order you type is the order you get, which makes 3, 1, 2 a way to rearrange as well as extract. A number past the last page is refused before anything is written.
The pages are the originals
Splitting copies pages into new documents rather than redrawing them, so each output page keeps its exact dimensions, its rotation and its selectable text. Nothing is rasterised and no quality is lost anywhere in the process.
Questions
Can I reorder pages while extracting them?
Yes. In range mode the pages come out in the order you typed, so entering 3, 1, 2 both extracts and rearranges in one step.
Why do the split pages add up to more than the original?
Each new file has to carry the resources its page needs, such as embedded fonts. A font shared by fifty pages was stored once and is now stored fifty times.
Is there a limit on how many pages I can split?
There is no server limit because there is no server. Very long documents are bounded only by the memory your own device can spare.