Split a PDF into smaller files

Load the document and every page renders as a thumbnail, so you can see exactly what you are cutting rather than trusting page numbers alone. Select the pages you want — click individual thumbnails, or enter ranges like 1-5, 8, 12-14 when you already know the boundaries.

The split runs entirely in the browser: page objects are copied out of the source and written into new PDFs with no re-encoding, so extracted pages keep their original text, vectors, and image resolution perfectly. Download the results individually or as a batch ZIP. A useful sanity check before you close the tab: the pages across all outputs should sum to exactly the source page count.

Watch for two numbering traps. PDFs have a physical page index (the first sheet is page 1) and often a printed page number that starts later because of covers and contents pages — establish which one you are counting before cutting, or your excerpt will open mid-paragraph. Documents with bookmarks give you reliable split points for free: each bookmark marks an intended section start.

For scanned documents without outlines, skim first and note the physical indexes of each section boundary. Doing this once up front beats re-splitting three times because the ranges were off by one.

Extract an invoice from a bank statement so you can expense one page instead of forty. Pull the relevant chapter from a textbook-sized PDF. Break a 200-page scan into single-page files that document-management systems and OCR tools can index properly — many of them choke on large multi-page scans. Or isolate a signature page, sign it, and merge it back afterward.

In every case the pattern is the same: distribute only the pages the recipient needs. Splitting is also a lightweight privacy control — pages you exclude are gone from the output entirely, so fragments can be shared without exposing the rest of the document.