Split PDF File
Upload a PDF file and choose how to split it. You can split by page ranges or extract individual pages.
Combine multiple PDFs into one
Split a PDF into separate files
Reorder pages by dragging
Pull specific pages out
Pull all images out
Remove pages from PDF
Rotate pages in any direction
Stack one PDF onto another
Reduce PDF file size
Clean up unused data
Make scanned text searchable
Spot the differences between two PDFs
Add text, signatures, shapes
Add your signature anywhere
Add text or image watermark
Number pages as 1, i or A
Add sticky-note comments
Ready-to-use forms to fill online
Add a password
Unlock a PDF with its password
Black out sensitive info
Editable .docx export
Tables as .xlsx
Each page as a JPG
Each page as a PNG
Each page as a WebP
Turn JPG images into a PDF
Turn PNG images into a PDF
Combine JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP into one PDF
Convert .docx to PDF
Convert .xlsx to PDF
Convert .pptx to PDF
Turn an HTML file into a PDF
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Split PDF documents into separate files
Split PDF cuts one document into several new files, which is how you separate PDF pages that need to live on their own. Every unbroken run of pages you ask for becomes one file, and each gap in the page numbers starts the next one. Pages you don't mention are left out of every file.
The same rule holds when you tick pages on the thumbnails instead of typing ranges: ticked pages that sit next to each other are saved in one file, and a gap starts a new one.
How page ranges divide a PDF
What each entry gives you from a 12-page PDF.
Several files
- 1-3, 5-7, 10 gives three files
- 2, 5, 9 gives one page per file
- 1-4, 9-12 gives two files
One file
- 4-8 gives pages 4 to 8 only
- 5, 6, 7 gives pages 5 to 7 together
- 1-6, 7-12 gives all 12 pages
Inside the PDF splitter
Each part is built as a PDF of its own: the pages of one run are copied into a new, empty file, unchanged in size, orientation and content. Only pages travel, so the parts don't inherit the original's bookmarks or its title and author details.
The field is read loosely. Ranges can be typed in any order and even backwards, so 7-5 means pages 5 to 7, and a page named twice is used once. Numbers past the last page are ignored, and an unfinished entry such as 5- is skipped.
Ticking a thumbnail switches the tool to picking pages one by one, and going back to Split by Page Ranges fills the field with the pages you ticked. In that mode each page also gets a button under Select Pages to Extract, kept in step with the thumbnails. The mode you used last is ready again on your next visit.
When to unmerge a PDF
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One scan, many documents
A stack of letters or invoices scanned in one go becomes one file per document once you give each its range.
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Signed forms in one file
Separate a batch of returned forms so each person's pages can be filed on their own.
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Sections for different readers
Send each team only the chapter that concerns it.
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Main text and annexes
Keep a report and its appendices as separate PDFs when a portal asks for them one by one.
Want a few pages as one file?
To collect scattered pages such as 2, 5 and 9 in a single PDF, use Extract Pages.
Split PDF questions
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Use two runs. For a 12-page file, enter 1-6 and click Split PDF, then change the field to 7-12 and split again; the document stays loaded between runs. Typing both halves at once gives back a single file, because ranges that touch form one unbroken run.
Not in a single run, but two runs do it. Enter the odd page numbers (1, 3, 5 and so on) and split, then do the same with the even ones. Every page then ends up in a file of its own.
There is no automatic interval, and parts that touch join up. Two runs work here as well: first enter every other part, such as 1-3, 7-9, 13-15, then the parts in between, 4-6, 10-12, 16-18.
No. Parts are defined by page numbers only; the tool doesn't read bookmarks or measure how large each part will be. Look up where each chapter starts in the table of contents and type the matching ranges.
A single result is named after your PDF with _split at the end. Two or more results download one after another as split_1.pdf, split_2.pdf and so on, numbered in page order.
A single part opens in the result with a preview of its pages. Two or more parts go straight to your downloads instead, and the result lists how many pages were used and how many files were made.
Splitting around them leaves you with several files. To remove pages and keep everything else together in one PDF, use Delete Pages instead.
No. Split PDF takes one document at a time, because the same page number points to a different page in every file. To unmerge PDF documents, run each one through in turn with its own ranges.