Split PDF
Choose the pages you want to keep.
Taking pages out
Every page appears as a numbered button. They all start selected; click to deselect anything you do not want, or use the shortcuts for all, none, odd or even.
Typing a range is faster
For anything longer than a few pages, use the range box: 1-3, 7, 10-12 selects pages one to three, page seven, and ten to twelve. Commas separate the parts and a hyphen makes a range.
Odd and even have a specific use
They exist for duplex scanning. If you scanned a double-sided document by running all the fronts through the feeder and then all the backs, you end up with two files or one file in the wrong order. Splitting by odd and even lets you separate them before interleaving properly.
Pages are copied, not redrawn
The extracted pages keep their original content exactly — text stays selectable, images keep their resolution, nothing is re-compressed. The result is genuinely a subset of the original file rather than a new rendering of it.
Common uses
- Sending one section of a long report instead of all of it.
- Removing pages before sharing — though for that, the delete pages tool is the more direct route.
- Pulling a single form or certificate out of a bundle.
- Separating a duplex scan into fronts and backs.
- Extracting a chapter from a long document.
Questions people ask
How do I select a range of pages?
Type it in the range box — 1-3, 7, 10-12. Commas separate the parts and a hyphen makes a range.
Can I split into several separate files?
Not in one pass. Extract the first set, start over, and extract the next. Each run produces one file.
Does extracting reduce quality?
No. Pages are copied rather than re-rendered, so text stays text and images keep their resolution.
What are the odd and even buttons for?
Separating a double-sided scan where all the fronts were scanned first and then all the backs.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. It is read and rewritten in your browser. This site has no server that could receive it.
Does it work with a password-protected PDF?
Not reliably. An encrypted file has to be unlocked before it can be changed. Open it in a reader, enter the password, and save an unprotected copy first.
Is there a file size limit?
Only your device's memory. There is no server limit and no queue, though very large files will take a moment and use a fair amount of RAM.
Your file is not uploaded
This is the whole point of the page, so it is worth being exact about it.
Every well-known site offering these tools works by sending your PDF to their servers, processing it there, and sending a result back. For a holiday itinerary that is merely unnecessary. For a contract, a payslip, a medical letter, a bank statement or a scan of your passport, it means handing a private document to a company you have never dealt with, to be held for an unspecified time on infrastructure you cannot inspect.
Nothing here is uploaded. Your browser reads the file from your disk, rewrites it in memory, and hands you the result. The site is a set of static files with no server capable of receiving a document.
The libraries doing the work are served from this site rather than borrowed from someone else's CDN, so using these pages does not make a request to any third party either. You can check that on the about page, which lists every request this site makes, read live from your own browser.
It also means it works offline once loaded, there is no file size limit beyond your own memory, and there is no queue.