Split PDF
Upload a PDF, optionally specify page ranges, and download the resulting files as a ZIP.
Overview
This tool splits a PDF into multiple smaller PDFs, either by page ranges you specify (e.g. "1-3,5,8-10") or, if left blank, by breaking every page out into its own single-page file. The result is always a ZIP archive containing every output file, since a split can produce more than one document.
Splitting happens server-side using a real PDF library, so each output file is a complete, valid PDF on its own — not a raw slice of the original.
Examples
Extracting a chapter and an appendix
report.pdf (20 pages), ranges: "1-5,18-20"
split.zip containing 01-pages-1-5.pdf and 02-pages-18-20.pdf
How It Works
- Choose a PDF file from your device.
- Optionally enter page ranges like "1-3,5,8-10" — leave this blank to split every page into its own file.
- Click Split. The file is uploaded, split server-side, and a ZIP of the results is returned.
- Click Download to save the ZIP, then extract it to get the individual PDFs.
Use Cases
Extracting a specific chapter or section
Pull out just the pages you need from a large report or contract without sharing the whole document.
Breaking a scanned batch into individual documents
Split a multi-page scan of several separate forms into one file per form.
Tips
- Page numbers in a range are 1-indexed and refer to the page as it appears in the original PDF, not the output file.
- Leave the ranges field blank for the simplest case: one PDF per page, all zipped together.
FAQ
Yes. Splitting requires a real PDF library, so the file is uploaded, processed in memory, and the result returned — nothing is stored.
A ZIP file containing one PDF per range (or per page, if you left ranges blank).
The tool checks your ranges against the actual page count and shows an error naming how many pages the file has, rather than silently producing an empty or broken file.