Split PDF

Splitting a PDF is usually one of two jobs, and most tools only do one of them properly. Either you want a few specific pages out of a long document, or you want to break a long document into equal chunks. This does both. Type 1-3, 7, 10-12 and you get exactly those pages in one new file, in that order. Or set a chunk size and get the whole document broken into pieces, downloaded one after another. It runs entirely in your browser, so the document you are cutting up, which is often a contract or a statement, never leaves your device.

How to use

1. Drop in the PDF you want to cut. The page count appears straight away, which tells you what you have to work with.
2. Choose Pick pages if you want specific ones, or Break into pieces if you want the whole thing divided up.
3. For specific pages, write them the way you would say them: 1-3, 7, 10-12. Single pages, ranges, or both together.
4. For pieces, set how many pages each one should have. It tells you how many files that produces before you commit.
5. Press Split. A single file downloads immediately; pieces arrive one after another a moment apart.

Why use our split pdf?

The page range parser is deliberately forgiving, because people type these in a hurry. Spaces anywhere are fine. Either kind of dash works. A reversed range like 9-5 is read the way it was obviously meant. And a page number that does not exist is reported rather than silently ignored, so asking for page 40 of a 12 page document tells you what went wrong instead of quietly giving you nothing.

Order is preserved as you wrote it, which matters more than it sounds. Asking for 7, 1-3 gives you page seven first, because that is what you asked for. Tools that sort the pages numerically make it impossible to reorder while extracting, which turns a one step job into two. Downloads of multiple pieces are also spaced out on purpose, because browsers throttle rapid repeated downloads and files silently go missing otherwise.

Who is this tool for?

Sending one section of a long report to somebody who does not need the rest is the everyday case, and doing it without uploading the whole report to a website is the reason to do it here. Removing the pages of a bank statement that are not relevant to an application is another, and one where privacy is the entire point.

Students split scanned textbooks and lecture packs into chapters. Anyone dealing with a large scanned bundle uses the equal pieces mode to make it manageable. If you need to put pages back together afterwards, our merge PDF does that, and delete pages from PDF is the better tool when you want to keep most of a document and drop a few pages.

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