Split PDF
Pull the pages you actually need out of a large PDF and save them as their own document — one chapter, one signed clause, one month of a statement — without uploading anything anywhere.
Drop your PDF here
Pages show up as tiles — tick the ones you need. The file stays in your browser and is never sent to a server.
Need to remove pages rather than extract them: delete pages from a PDF. Every other action lives in the editor.
How it works
- Load the PDF: click “Choose files” or drag the document onto the page. Every page appears as a numbered thumbnail.
- Tick the pages you want to keep using the checkbox on each tile. The counter at the top shows how many are selected, and “Select all” and “Clear selection” help in long documents.
- Click “Selected” to download exactly those pages as a new PDF.
- Change the selection and repeat to produce the next part. The original file on your disk is never modified.
Split a PDF or extract pages — what is the difference?
The two words describe different outcomes, and mixing them up is the reason people end up with a folder full of files they did not want. Splitting means cutting one document into two or more parts so that every page ends up somewhere: a 60-page report becomes three 20-page sections, and nothing is left over. Extracting means lifting a subset out — pages 12 to 15 of a contract — while the rest of the document carries on existing untouched.
This tool does both from the same screen, because both start with the same action: choose pages, save them as a file. Select pages 1–20 and save, then 21–40 and save, then 41–60, and you have split the report. Select only pages 12–15 and save once, and you have extracted them. If what you actually want is the original document minus a few pages, that is a different job — delete the pages instead and keep everything else in place.
What people usually pull out of a PDF
Almost every request comes down to sending less than the whole document, whether for privacy, for size, or simply out of courtesy to the reader:
- One month out of a year-long bank statement, for a landlord or a loan application, without handing over eleven other months of spending.
- The signed page of a contract, to email back on its own rather than returning forty pages the other party already has.
- A single chapter of a textbook or manual, small enough to read comfortably on a phone.
- One invoice from a batch export, to attach to a specific expense claim.
- The two pages of a scanned application form that a clerk asked you to resend, when the rest of the packet contains ID scans you would rather not circulate again.
- A handful of slides from a long deck, so a colleague opens the file on the part that concerns them.
Getting the right pages, and what you get back
Work from the thumbnails, not from remembered numbers. The number printed on a page and the page's real position in the file often disagree: an unnumbered cover, roman numerals in the front matter, or a scanned insert can shift everything by one or two. The tiles are numbered by physical position, which is what the selection uses, and the thumbnail shows you the actual page — glance at it before you save and off-by-one errors disappear.
The saved file contains those pages exactly as they were. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed, so text remains selectable and searchable, scanned images keep their resolution, and the extracted file is roughly as heavy as those pages were inside the original. If the pages came out sideways, straighten them with Rotate PDF before saving; if you need the parts back together later in a different sequence, Merge PDF puts them into one document again.
Frequently asked questions
Is splitting a PDF free?
Yes, completely. No subscription, no page quota, no watermark on the pages you extract and no account required — you can split as many documents as you like, as often as you like.
Do my files go to a server?
No. The PDF is opened and rebuilt inside your browser and never leaves the device. This is the practical reason to split statements, medical records and ID packets here rather than on a service that uploads them first.
Can I extract a single page?
Yes. Tick one tile and click “Selected”, and that page is saved as a one-page PDF. There is no minimum, and no upper limit either — you can take three pages or three hundred in one go.
Is there a limit on file size or page count?
Only what your device can hold in memory. There is no server-side cap of 20 MB or 100 pages, because there is no server. A heavy scanned document may take a few seconds to display all its thumbnails, but it will open.
Will the extracted pages lose quality?
No. Pages are copied across without being converted or re-encoded, so a text page stays a text page — searchable and sharp at any zoom — and a scan keeps the resolution it was scanned at.
Does the original file change?
Never. The file on your disk is only read. What you download is a new document containing the selected pages, so you can extract several different sets from the same source without ever damaging it.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. On Android and iPhone you can open a PDF from storage or a cloud drive, tap the checkbox on each page you want, and download the extract. Tapping to select works exactly as it does with a mouse, and no app installation is involved.