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Split PDF
Take pages out of a PDF, cut it into parts, or explode it into one file per page. Everything happens in this page and the document is never sent anywhere.
Drop a PDF here
Or press to choose one.
nothing is uploaded — this page does the work
The three modes, and which one you want
Extract these pages into one PDF. You type 1-3, 9, 14- and get back a single document containing pages 1, 2, 3, 9, 14 and everything after 14, in that order. This is the one people want about eight times out of ten: pulling the three pages of a bank statement that the letting agent asked for, out of a forty-page export.
Cut into separate documents at these pages. The numbers you type are the pages that start a new document. Typing 5, 12 on a twenty-page file gives you three documents: pages 1-4, pages 5-11, and pages 12-20. This is how you break a combined scan back into the separate letters it was made from.
Save every page as its own PDF. No numbers needed. A forty-page document becomes forty files in a zip, named with a zero-padded page number so they sort correctly in every file manager.
Writing the page numbers
Pages are counted from 1, the way they are printed, not from 0. A range can be open at either end: -4 means the first four pages and 12- means page twelve to the end. Separate anything you like with commas.
Numbers past the end of the document are ignored rather than treated as an error, so typing 1-100 on a twelve-page file simply means all of it. Duplicates are removed, so 1-5, 3 gives five pages and not six.
What comes back, and why some of it is zipped
One document comes back as a PDF. More than one comes back as a zip, because handing somebody forty separate download prompts is not a result, it is a chore — and most browsers block the second and subsequent automatic downloads anyway.
The zip is written by this page, uncompressed, on purpose. PDF page content is already compressed, so running it through deflate a second time would spend a second of your phone's battery to save about one percent. The archive is a normal zip that every operating system opens without extra software.
What splitting does not preserve
Each output document is a genuinely new PDF containing copies of the pages you asked for. That means it carries the page content, the fonts those pages use, and the images on them — but not the original document's outline, its named destinations, or links that pointed at pages you did not take. A table of contents on page 1 whose links jumped to pages 30 to 60 will still be there after you extract page 1, and none of its links will go anywhere.
Document metadata — title, author, keywords — is not copied either. If that matters for what you are producing, set it afterwards in whatever you use to read PDFs.