Runs on your device
Split PDF
Pull chapters out of a long report, cut a scanned batch back into separate documents, or take the four pages you actually need. Type the ranges or pick the pages — you see how many files you will get before anything runs.
How to split a PDF
Add your PDF
Drag the file onto the box above, or click it to pick it from your computer. One document at a time: splitting means cutting one file up, so there is nothing to combine between several.
Choose how to cut it
Four ways, on the tabs. Type page ranges like 1-5, 8, 11-13. Cut every N pages, for a batch of scans that are all the same length. Burst the whole document into single pages. Or pick the pages you want on the thumbnails and take just those.
Check what you will get
The tool lists the files before it makes them, with the pages that go in each. If a range runs past the end of the document it says so and trims it; if you mistype one, it tells you which one rather than quietly making fewer files than you asked for.
Split and download
One file comes back as a PDF. More than one comes back as a ZIP, with each file named after the pages inside it — report_1-5.pdf, report_8.pdf — so you can tell them apart without opening them.
What you get
You see the files before you get them
Every mode shows the list it is about to produce, named and counted, while you are still typing. Nothing about a split is a surprise you discover after unzipping.
Bookmarks follow their pages
A bookmark pointing at a page that ends up in one of the new files goes with it. One pointing somewhere else is dropped rather than quietly re-aimed at whatever page is nearest — and the tool tells you how many that was.
Your file stays with you
The split runs in your browser, on your own device. The document is never uploaded, so there is no copy on a server of ours to leak, to hand over, or to forget to delete.
Free, no account, no watermark
No page limit, no file count limit, and nothing stamped on the pages that come out. Open the page, take what you need, close the tab.
Frequently asked questions
Will the bookmarks be kept when I split a PDF?
The ones that can be. A bookmark points at a specific page, so when that page lands in one of the new files the bookmark goes with it and still works. When it points at a page that went into a different file — or into no file at all, because you did not ask for it — it is dropped, and the tool reports how many were lost. It is worth saying what we deliberately do not do: some tools re-aim an orphaned bookmark at whatever page happens to be nearest, which leaves you with a contents entry that confidently sends the reader to the wrong place. We would rather give you fewer bookmarks that are all correct.
Why did I get a ZIP instead of a PDF?
Because you asked for more than one file. A browser can only hand you one download at a time, so several PDFs have to travel together in an archive; every operating system in common use opens a ZIP without extra software. When your split produces exactly one file — a single range, or a selection of pages — you get that PDF directly, with no archive to unpack first. The files inside are named after the pages they contain, like report_1-5.pdf, so you can sort them out without opening each one.
What can I type in the page ranges box?
Ranges and single pages separated by commas: 1-5, 8, 11-13 gives you three files. Spaces do not matter, any kind of dash works, and a backwards range like 5-1 is read as 1-5. You can leave one end open: 18- means page 18 to the end, and -3 means the start through page 3. Each comma-separated piece becomes its own file, so if you want pages 1-5 and 8 in the SAME document, pick them on the thumbnails instead. A range that runs off the end is trimmed and the tool says so; something it cannot read at all is reported rather than skipped.
Can the same page go into more than one file?
Yes. Typing 1-5, 3-7 gives you two files that share pages 3, 4 and 5, and that is treated as exactly what you meant rather than as a mistake to correct. It is a normal thing to want when the sections of a document overlap, or when you need an appendix attached to two different extracts. Each output is built independently, so the shared pages are complete in both.
Do comments and form fields survive the split?
Not reliably, and this is the honest difference between splitting and rotating. Splitting has to build new documents out of the pages you asked for, and things that live alongside the pages rather than inside them — annotations, filled-in form fields, attachments — are not carried across by that copy. Page content itself is copied exactly: text stays selectable, images are not re-encoded, and nothing is rasterised. If you need to keep an interactive form intact, splitting is not the tool for it.
How large a PDF can I split, and how many files can I get?
We set no limit of our own on either. The work happens in your browser, so the ceiling is your device's memory rather than a quota we impose. Bursting a very long document into single pages is the case that costs the most, because each output is a separate PDF that has to be built and held in memory until the archive is assembled — a thousand single pages on a phone is where you would expect trouble, and the same job on a laptop is usually fine. Splitting into a handful of ranges is cheap at almost any document size.
Does splitting reduce quality, or make the pages smaller?
It does neither. The pages that come out are the pages that went in: no image is re-encoded and no text is redrawn, so a split page is identical to its original. File size roughly follows page count, but not exactly — resources like fonts and images that were shared across the whole document may be needed by more than one of the new files, so the parts can add up to slightly more than the whole. If your aim is a smaller file rather than fewer pages, splitting is the wrong tool.