Split a PDF into separate files

Five ways to cut a document, a table showing exactly what each resulting file will contain before you commit, and no upload at any point.

Cut a PDF into separate files by page range, every N pages, one file per page, or a selection. Preview each part before saving. Runs in your browser, no upload.

Open the editor

Free, no account, and the file stays on your machine.

The five modes

Every N pages, for cutting a long document into even chunks. One file per page, when you want them all separate. At page numbers, where you list the pages to cut before — the way to split a bound report at its section starts. Custom ranges, one output per line, written as 1-2, 5 or 8- for everything from page eight on. And Selected pages, which takes whatever you ticked over in the Pages view.

Check before you save

Each part is previewed in a table with its page list, page count and file size, so a wrong range is visible before it becomes eleven wrongly-cut files in your downloads folder. Take the parts one at a time, or all of them at once as a zip.

What carries through

Parts are assembled the same way a normal save is, so rotations, reordering and annotations you made elsewhere are all present in the output. Splitting is not a separate path that quietly drops your edits.

Pages are copied rather than re-encoded, so each part is the same quality as the source.

Questions

Is there a file size limit?

None imposed. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no upload cap and no free-tier ceiling — the limit is your machine's memory.

Can I extract just one range without splitting everything?

Yes. Use Custom ranges with a single line, or tick the pages in the Pages view and use Extract selection there.

Does splitting reduce quality?

No. Pages are copied into the new files object for object; nothing is re-encoded.

How do I get all the parts at once?

Download them as a zip, built in the browser like everything else.

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