What this does

Drop in a PDF and it shows you every page. From there you can cut the document into separate files at the points you choose, chop it into equal chunks, break it into one file per page, or click the handful of pages you actually want and pull just those out. If the split produces more than one file you get them back as a zip; a single file downloads as a PDF.

Nothing is uploaded. The PDF is read, cut and written entirely inside this page, which matters more here than on most tools — the documents people split are contracts, bank statements, medical letters and scanned passports, and every online splitter that isn't doing the work locally has a copy of yours sitting on a server somewhere.

The four ways to split

By ranges — type 1-3, 4-6, 7- and you get three files. Each comma-separated group becomes its own PDF, and leaving one side of a dash off runs to the start or the end of the document.
Every N pages — cuts straight through in equal chunks. Useful for breaking a long scan into manageable pieces, or separating a stack of two-page invoices that were scanned in one go.
Each page — one file per page, named for the page it holds.
Pick pages — click the pages you want in the grid and take them out as a single PDF. This is the one for "I need pages 2, 7 and 12 out of this".

Whichever you choose, the line above the button tells you exactly what you're about to get — how many files, how many pages, and how many pages are being left out — and each page in the grid is badged with the file it will land in. Nothing is generated until you press the button.

Splitting and extracting are the same job

People search for these separately — "split a PDF", "extract pages from a PDF", "delete a page from a PDF" — but they're one operation seen from different angles. Splitting keeps every page and shares them between files. Extracting keeps some and discards the rest. Deleting a page is extracting all the others. The Pick pages mode covers the last two: choose what you want to keep, and what you didn't choose is what you removed.

What happens to the pages

Pages are copied whole, with the fonts, images and annotations they depend on, so the output is the same quality as the original — nothing is re-rendered, re-compressed or flattened into an image. Text stays selectable and searchable, and vector artwork stays sharp.

What doesn't come across is the document's metadata. The files this produces are created fresh, with no title, author, producer or creation date carried over and none invented — so a page pulled out of a document doesn't quietly bring its author's name and your local time with it. Bookmarks and the document outline are also left behind, since the structure they point at no longer exists once the document has been cut up.

Is it private?

Yes, and you can check. The splitting is done by JavaScript in this page; your PDF is never sent anywhere, and there's no server on the other end to send it to. Open your browser's network panel while you split something, or disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded — it carries on working.

Frequently asked questions

How big a PDF can it handle?

It's limited by your device's memory rather than an upload cap, so files in the tens of megabytes are fine. Very large documents take a moment to read, and page previews are drawn only as you scroll to them so that a 400-page file doesn't have to render 400 images before you can do anything.

Why did I get a zip?

Because the split produced more than one file. Browsers block a page that tries to start several downloads at once, so one archive is the reliable way to hand them over. Splitting to a single file — extracting pages, or one range — downloads a plain PDF.

It says my PDF is protected.

Encrypted PDFs can't be split without the password, and that includes files with an owner password that only restricts printing or copying. Open it in a reader that can unlock it, save an unprotected copy, and split that.

Can I reorder pages while splitting?

Within a range, yes — 3-1 gives you those pages backwards, since ranges are read in the order you write them. For heavier rearranging, the merge tool takes a page selection per file and puts them together in the order you give.