split a PDF
Take the pages you need out of a document, or cut it into parts, in this tab. Nothing is uploaded.
There is no Google Drive or Dropbox button on purpose: those send the file through a server. Here is what happens instead.
in three steps
- Drop the PDF in, or choose it. Its page count appears beside the name.
- Say what you want: exactly these pages, one file per page, or a fixed number of pages per file.
- Split, and take the result — a single PDF, or a zip when there is more than one file.
how it works
Write the pages the way you would say them — 1-3, 7, 10-12 — and the tool tells you how many that comes to before anything runs. An open range works in both directions: 6- means from page six to the end, and -4 means from the start to page four.
Pages come out in the order you name them, so 7, 1-2 puts page seven first. Each part is named after the pages it holds, so nothing can overwrite the original in your downloads folder.
why doing this locally matters here
Splitting is usually about sending less than you have: one page of a bank statement rather than the year, the signature page rather than the contract, a single test result rather than the file. The whole point is that the recipient should not see the rest.
Uploading the complete document to a service in order to send one page of it defeats the exercise before it starts. Here the document is opened by your own browser and the pages you did not choose never go anywhere at all.
questions
Where does my PDF go?
Nowhere. The document is read by this page, the pages you asked for are copied into new documents, and those are handed back — all in this tab. No request carries the file, and the job log counts the requests the page made while working and how many left this site; the second number is zero.
How do I write the page numbers?
The way you would say them: 1-3, 7, 10-12. A range with an open end works too — 6- means from page six to the end, and -4 means from the start to page four. Pages come out in the order you name them, so 7, 1-2 puts page seven first. If you name a page that does not exist, the tool says how many there are instead of guessing.
What is the difference between splitting and extracting?
Only the shape of the result. "Exactly these pages" gives you one document containing them; "one file per page" gives you a separate PDF for each page; "a fixed number per file" cuts the document into equal chunks with the remainder in the last one. All three copy pages rather than re-rendering them.
Does the original change?
Never. The file on your disk is read and not written to; new documents are built from copies of its pages. Each part is named after the pages it holds, so a split of contract.pdf gives you contract-1-3.pdf and the like, which cannot overwrite the original either.
Why did it refuse my password-protected file?
Because an encrypted PDF cannot be read without its password, and producing a broken file would be worse than refusing. Open it in a reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and split that.
Is this really free?
Yes. No account, no watermark on the pages, no cap on the number of files it will produce. Advertising pays for the hosting, and your document never reaches us, so there is nothing about it to sell.