What Is PDF Splitter?
PDF Splitter divides a single PDF into multiple separate files. You can split by page ranges, extract every page as its own file, or split at specific breakpoints — useful for breaking apart large reports, separating combined invoices, or distributing individual chapters.
How to Use This Tool
Upload your PDF and choose a split method: by page range (e.g., pages 1–5 and 6–10), every N pages, or each page as a separate file. The tool processes the split in your browser and provides the resulting files for download. No data leaves your device.
Why Use PDF Splitter?
Splitting PDFs is a premium feature in most PDF software. This tool does it for free with no file-size limits, no watermarks, and complete privacy. It’s especially useful for breaking apart large scanned documents or separating bundled forms. For a detailed walkthrough, see our step-by-step guide.
See also: Beyond splitting at every page boundary, the PDF Page Extractor extracts a contiguous or non-contiguous page range as a new PDF.
Common Use Cases
Extracting one chapter of a textbook scan for study purposes. Pulling the signed signature page out of a multi-page contract to attach to a different document. Breaking a long deposition or transcript into per-witness files for distribution. Separating an invoice attached to the bottom of an email-archive PDF into its own file for the accounting team.
Producing per-page files for a document management system that requires single-page uploads. Splitting a multi-form government PDF download into the specific form pages each filer actually needs. Breaking up a research paper into intro, methodology, results, and discussion files for separate annotation. Trimming a presentation export down to just the slides you want to share, leaving the speaker-note pages behind.
How We Compare
Adobe Acrobat's "Organize Pages" tool is the comprehensive solution and the right choice for ongoing work with PDFs. It costs money. Free PDF splitters online work but upload your file, which is a deal-breaker when the PDF contains confidential client data, employee records, or financial details. Command-line tools like pdftk do this well for power users.
This tool runs the split in your browser using PDF-lib, which means the file stays on your device. You can split by page range, by every N pages, or extract specific pages into a new PDF. Output preserves the original quality (no re-encoding the page content) and works on PDFs up to several hundred megabytes. For combining files in the other direction, see PDF merger.
One workflow tip: name your output files descriptively before splitting (the tool lets you set a filename prefix), so a 40-page deposition broken into per-witness files arrives as Smith-pp1-12.pdf, Jones-pp13-25.pdf, etc. rather than part-1.pdf, part-2.pdf — future-you will be grateful.
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