Split a PDF or extract pages
Pull a chosen set of pages out of a PDF, or cut a long document into separate files, without it ever leaving your device. The work is done by qpdf compiled to WebAssembly running inside this page, so a bank statement or a scanned contract stays on your machine. The page count is read as soon as you drop the file in, so the tool can tell you exactly what you are about to get before you press anything.
Drop a PDF here
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Your file is opened in this page only — it is never uploaded.
How to split a PDF
Drop a PDF in and the page count is read straight away, which is what every box on this page is bounded by. Then pick one of two jobs. They are the same question asked in different ways: which pages do you want out of this document.
Extract pages takes a list like 1-3, 7, 9-end and produces one new PDF holding exactly those pages, in the order you wrote them. Split into parts takes a number and cuts the whole document into files of that many pages each — set it to 1 and every page becomes its own file. The line under the box always shows what you are about to get, before you press anything.
Writing a page range
Separate pages and ranges with commas: 4 is one page, 4-9 is six pages, and 1-3, 7, 9-end mixes them. The word end means the last page, so 5-end is everything from page five onwards without your needing to know how long the document is. Spaces are fine anywhere.
The order is kept exactly as you write it, which means a range can run backwards: 9-5 gives you those five pages in reverse. Asking for a page that does not exist is caught as you type rather than after you press the button, and the message says how many pages the document actually has.
Getting the parts back
Splitting into parts produces a list of files, each named after the source document and the pages it holds, so report.pdf split every two pages gives report-pages-1-2.pdf, report-pages-3-4.pdf and so on. Download them one at a time, or take the whole set as a single ZIP.
The ZIP is built in the page with no compression, which is deliberate: a PDF's contents are already compressed, so squeezing them again saves almost nothing and would only make the packing slower. The archive is assembled in your browser's memory like everything else here.
Why your file never leaves your device
The splitting is done by qpdf, a long-standing open-source PDF tool compiled to WebAssembly and running inside this tab. Your PDF is read into the page's own memory, cut up there, and handed back as downloads. Nothing is uploaded, so a bank statement or a scanned contract stays on your machine. Once the engine has loaded the tool keeps working with the network switched off entirely, which you are welcome to test.
What splitting does not keep
The pages themselves come across untouched — text, images, fonts and page sizes are copied rather than re-encoded, so nothing loses quality and the files stay about as large as the pages they hold.
Document-level extras do not survive: bookmarks, form fields and their values, attachments, and any encryption. A PDF that needs a password to open cannot be split at all until the password is removed, which the PDF password remover on this site will do. Going the other way, the merge tool joins files back into one.
Frequently asked questions
How do I split a PDF without uploading it?
Use the tool at the top of this page. The splitting is done by qpdf compiled to WebAssembly, which runs inside your browser tab, so the PDF is read into the page's memory and never sent to a server. Once the engine has loaded the page keeps working offline.
How do I extract specific pages from a PDF?
Choose Extract pages and type the pages you want, such as 1-3, 7, 9-end. You get back a single PDF holding exactly those pages in the order you wrote them. The line under the box tells you how many pages you have selected before you press anything.
How do I split a PDF into separate pages?
Choose Split into parts and set pages per file to 1. Every page becomes its own PDF, named after the source document and its page number. You can download them one by one or take the whole set as a ZIP.
What does 'end' mean in a page range?
It stands for the last page of the document, so 5-end means everything from page five to the finish without your needing to know the page count. You can also write z, which is the same thing.
Can I reverse the page order?
Yes. A range written backwards is kept backwards, so 9-5 gives you those five pages in reverse order. The order you type is the order you get.
Why will my PDF not open in the tool?
Almost always because it needs a password. An encrypted PDF cannot be split until the password is removed, which the PDF password remover on this site will do. The other causes are a damaged or partly downloaded file, or a file that is not really a PDF.
Does splitting reduce the quality of the pages?
No. The pages are copied across without being re-encoded, so text, images and fonts are byte-for-byte what they were. Nothing is recompressed.
Are bookmarks and form fields kept when a PDF is split?
No. The page content is kept, but document-level extras are dropped: bookmarks and the outline tree, form fields and their values, attachments, and any encryption. Keep the original file if those matter to you.