Split PDF
Pick pages visually — extract a range as one file, or split every page apart.
- Secure upload
- Deleted after processing
- No watermark
Click to upload or drag and drop
A single PDF, up to ~50MB
About the split pdf
This free online PDF splitter shows every page of your document as a visual thumbnail the moment you upload it, so you pick exactly the pages you want by looking at them — not by guessing page numbers from memory. It covers the two things people actually need a PDF splitter for in one tool: pull a specific set of pages out as a single new PDF, or split the whole document apart so every page becomes its own separate file, ready to download individually or all at once.
Click any page thumbnail to select or deselect it — every page starts selected, so narrowing down to just the ones you need takes a few clicks, with Select all and Deselect all to jump between the two extremes fast. "Extract" then combines whichever pages are selected into a single new PDF, in their original page order, which is exactly what you want when pulling a chapter out of a report, grabbing a signed page out of a contract, or lifting just the relevant section out of a much longer document.
"Split" takes the opposite approach and needs no selection at all: one click turns every page of the document into its own individual PDF file. That's the tool for breaking a scanned book or a batch-scanned stack of separate documents back into individual files, or preparing pages for a workflow that expects one page per file rather than a single bundled document.
Both operations copy pages directly at the object level rather than rendering them as images, so extracted and split pages keep their original text, quality and selectability intact — nothing gets redrawn or recompressed. Everything happens locally in your browser using PDF.js for the page previews and direct PDF page copying for the actual split — no upload, no server-side copy, and it works identically on a phone or a laptop.
Key features
- Visual page thumbnails — pick pages by looking at them, not by number
- Extract: combine selected pages into one new PDF
- Split: turn every page into its own separate downloadable PDF, one click
- Object-level page copying — text stays selectable, nothing gets rasterized
Common use cases
Pulling out a section
Extract just the pages you need — a chapter, a signed page, a specific form — as one standalone PDF.
Breaking apart a scan batch
Split a document scanned as one long file back into individual page files.
Removing unwanted pages
Deselect a cover page, blank page or appendix, then extract everything else as a clean document.
Per-page workflows
Prepare pages for a system or process that expects one page per file rather than a bundled PDF.
How to use it
- 1Upload a PDF — every page renders as a thumbnail automatically.
- 2Click any page to select or deselect it (all pages start selected).
- 3Click Extract to combine the selected pages into one new PDF.
- 4Or click Split to save every page as its own separate PDF file.
Supported formats & limits
Accepts any non-encrypted PDF up to roughly 50MB. Output is always PDF — one combined file (Extract) or one file per page (Split).
Privacy & security
Page previews render and pages are extracted entirely in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
FAQ
- Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
- No. Page previews render and pages are extracted entirely in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
- What's the difference between Extract and Split?
- Extract combines your selected pages into one new PDF, in order. Split ignores the selection and saves every page as its own separate PDF file, all at once.
- Will the extracted pages keep their text and quality?
- Yes — pages are copied directly rather than rendered as images, so text stays selectable and nothing gets re-compressed.
- Does this work on password-protected PDFs?
- No — a password-protected or corrupted PDF can't be read. Remove the password first with a tool that supports it, then split.