Split PDF
Cut one document into several, by range, count or page.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, and you can verify that in your browser's network tab. Verify it yourself: open your browser's network tab and watch. You will see one small request asking whether you have tasks left - a tool name and a hash, never the file.
What this does
Splitting divides one document into several smaller ones. The pages are copied exactly as they are, so text stays selectable, images keep their resolution, and nothing is re-encoded on the way through.
Use it when a document is really several documents wearing one cover: a scanned batch of invoices that came out as a single file, a report where only one chapter needs sending, or a bundle too large for an email attachment that has to go out in parts.
How it works
- Drop the PDF onto this page. The page count appears next to the file once it has been read.
- Choose how to cut it. By ranges gives you exact control; every N pages suits regular batches; equal parts divides the document evenly; each page produces one file per page.
- Check the preview of what will be produced before you commit.
- Press Split. Every output is written in turn, with progress showing which file is being written.
- Download the files individually, or take all of them at once as a ZIP.
Range mode treats each comma-separated group as its own output file, which is the difference between this and extracting pages. Typing 1-3, 7-9 gives you two documents; typing the same thing into Extract pages gives you one document containing six pages. Both are useful, and confusing them is the most common mistake people make with split tools elsewhere.
Output names are numbered with leading zeros sized to the number of files, so a 12-way split produces 01 through 12 rather than 1 through 12. That single detail is what makes the results sort correctly in every file manager and every upload dialog, instead of putting file 10 immediately after file 1.
Equal parts spreads any remainder one page at a time across the leading files rather than dumping it all on the last one. Splitting 10 pages into 3 gives you 4, 3 and 3 - not 3, 3 and 4.
Everything happens in your browser. A 500-page document is split without a byte of it leaving your device, and the only request the page makes is the allowance check - a tool name and a hash, never a page.
Questions people ask
- What is the difference between the four modes?
- By ranges lets you name exactly which pages go into each file, and each comma-separated group becomes one document. Every N pages cuts at a fixed interval. Equal parts divides the document into a number of files of near-identical length. Each page produces one file per page, which is what you want for splitting a batch of scanned single-page documents.
- How are the output files named?
- Each output takes the original file name plus a zero-padded number, so report.pdf split five ways becomes report-1.pdf through report-5.pdf, and a twelve-way split becomes report-01.pdf through report-12.pdf. You can set your own base name under advanced options.
- Do bookmarks survive the split?
- Yes. Each output keeps the bookmarks whose target pages ended up in it, re-pointed at their new positions. Bookmarks whose target went into a different file are dropped from that output, since they would otherwise point nowhere.
- Can I download everything at once?
- Yes. When a split produces more than one file, a single ZIP download is offered alongside the individual ones. The archive is built in your browser too, so this does not send anything anywhere either.
- Is there a limit on file size or page count?
- There is no page limit and no daily quota. The practical ceiling is your device's memory, and a large file gets a warning rather than a refusal. Nothing is uploaded regardless of size.