Split a PDF or extract pages — fast, free, no account needed. No upload.
Add a PDF, pick the pages you need, or split it every few pages or by ranges: the tool makes the new PDFs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
- No upload — runs in your browser
- Free, no account
- Reads PDF files
- One file, up to 200 MB
- Opens password-protected files
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One file, up to 200 MB
Your files stay in this browser and are never uploaded.
Add one PDF. You choose the pages once it has been read.
How to split a PDF
Add your PDF
Drop in one PDF of up to 200 MB. It is read as it arrives, so every page appears in a grid with its number, and a file with a password asks for it first.
Choose how to split it
Select pages to extract into one PDF, split every N pages, or write ranges such as 1-3, 4-8. Before you split, the summary says how many files you get and which pages each one holds.
Split and download
Press Split. One new file downloads as a PDF; several come together in a ZIP, each named after the pages it holds. Change the pages and split again whenever you like.
What split PDF files keep, and what they don't
Splitting copies the pages you choose into new PDFs. The pages themselves are not changed: text stays selectable, images keep their quality, and each page keeps its size and rotation.
Extract pages makes one PDF from the pages you select, in page order. Split every N pages cuts the whole file into runs of the same length, which with N = 1 gives one PDF per page. Custom ranges makes one PDF per range you write, and a page may appear in more than one range.
What belongs to the whole document doesn't come along: bookmarks and the outline. Form fields are flattened: they can't be filled in any more and digital signatures are no longer valid. What the file has drawn in its fields, such as typed-in values or a signature image, stays on the page; fields the file never drew come out empty. Links to pages that are not in a new file are removed rather than left pointing nowhere. To put pages from several files together instead, merge them.
Each new file carries the fonts and images its own pages use, so the parts together are often larger than the original file. Your browser holds the PDF in memory while it works, which is why the tool takes one file of up to 200 MB. Split parts can be joined again in any order with Merge PDF.
Limits worth knowing
- Reads PDF files only, one at a time. A file of another kind is refused with its reason.
- One file of up to 200 MB.
- Bookmarks and the outline are not kept. Form fields are flattened: they can't be filled in any more and signatures are no longer valid. Values the file has drawn stay on the page; fields the file never drew come out empty. The new files have no password or restrictions.
- Pages that share fonts or images carry a copy in each new file, so the parts together can be larger than the original.
Split PDF FAQ
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. Your PDF is read, split and saved in your browser, and it is never uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. The page does fetch its own code as you go: the PDF code loads when you add the file, and, where your browser can show page previews, they load their code and data files from this site when they are first drawn. Your file is never part of that.
How do I extract a few pages from a PDF?
Choose Extract pages, then tick the pages in the grid or type them in the field, like 2-4, 9. Both show the same selection. Press Split and the selected pages download as one PDF, in page order.
Can I save every page as its own PDF?
Yes. Choose Split every N pages and leave N at 1: every page becomes its own PDF, and they download together in one ZIP, each named after its page number.
How do I write page ranges?
Separate pages and ranges with commas: 1-3 is pages 1 to 3, 5 is page 5 alone, and 8- runs from page 8 to the last page. If something can't be read, the field says what and at which character, and the pages you set before stay as they were.
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
Yes. A PDF that needs a password to open asks for it first; enter it and the file is unlocked in your browser. A PDF that only limits printing, copying or editing opens without one. Either way, the new files have no password and none of those limits.
Are bookmarks, forms and signatures kept?
Bookmarks and the document outline aren't. Form fields are flattened: they can't be filled in any more and digital signatures are no longer valid. What the file has drawn in its fields, such as typed-in values or a signature image, stays on the page; fields the file never drew come out empty. Links to pages that are not in a new file are removed; links between pages that are both in it keep working.
Why are the split files larger than I expected?
Pages often share fonts and images. Each new file needs its own copy of what its pages use, so a few pages can take more space than their share of the original, and all the parts together can be larger than the whole file. Nothing is compressed again, so the quality stays the same.
Does splitting lower the quality?
No. The pages are copied into the new files as they are, without being compressed again, so text stays sharp and selectable and images keep their quality.
What to do next
- Merge PDFNeed pages from several files in one? Merge PDFs in the order you choose.
- PDF to JPGNeed pages as images instead? Turn PDF pages into JPG or PNG.
- Images to PDFHave photos or scans to go with the pages? Turn images into a PDF, one image per page.
- Collage & compareWorking with product photos rather than documents? Put several photos into one collage image.
- Convert Image FormatPhotos in HEIC or WebP? Convert them to JPEG or PNG.
- Compress ImageNeed a photo under a size limit? Compress a JPEG, PNG or WebP to a target size.
Split your PDF now
Add your file, choose the pages and download the new PDFs. Your file never leaves this device.