Split PDF

Splitting a PDF means pulling specific pages out of a larger document and saving them as their own separate file, without touching the original. This tool lets you type in the pages you want — a single page, several individual pages, or several ranges at once like 1-3, 5, 8-10 — and it builds new PDFs containing just those pages, in order, ready to download. You choose whether each range becomes its own file, whether everything lands in one combined file, or whether every page is split into its own PDF. The rest of the original document is left completely untouched on your device.

This is the tool for anyone who has one long PDF and only needs part of it: pulling a single signed page out of a 40-page contract, saving just the appendix from a report, or grabbing one chapter out of a scanned textbook to share separately. It works entirely inside your browser using the pdf-lib library, so the file you upload never gets sent anywhere — everything happens locally, then the extracted result downloads straight to your device.

Because there's no server involved, there's also no waiting in a queue, no file size cap tied to a free plan, and no risk of a sensitive document — a contract, a medical record, a tax form — passing through a company's servers on its way to being split. Once you close the tab, nothing from the process remains anywhere except the files you chose to download.

The tool offers three modes, so the same page numbers can produce very different results. "Split into separate PDFs" turns every range you list into its own file: type 1-3, 5, 8-10 and you get three PDFs back in one pass, one per range. "Extract into one PDF" takes all the pages you listed and merges them into a single combined document instead. To pull out a range, like an appendix spanning pages 20 to 25, type 20-25 and you'll get one new PDF containing those six pages in order.

If what you actually want is a separate file for every individual page, use the third mode, "Every page its own PDF" — one click turns a 30-page document into 30 single-page files. Each result appears in a list with its own download button, plus a Download all button that saves them one after another, so a multi-file split is still a single trip through the tool.

The input box accepts three patterns, and you can mix all of them in one entry separated by commas. A single number like 3 pulls just page 3. A dash between two numbers, like 5-9, pulls every page from 5 through 9 inclusive. Combining them, like 1,3,5-9,12, covers page 1, page 3, pages 5 through 9, and page 12 — in extract mode they all land in one output file, and in split mode each of those four entries becomes its own PDF.

Within a single output file the tool removes duplicate page numbers and sorts everything into ascending order, regardless of what order you typed them in, so entering 9,1,5-7 extracts the same pages as 1,5-7,9. Anything the tool can't act on is reported instead of being silently skipped: a page number beyond the document's length, a backwards range like 9-3, a stray comma, or text that isn't a number each produce a specific message under the input box naming the entry at fault.

• Single page: 3
• Range: 5-9
• Combined: 1,3,5-9,12
• Multiple ranges in split mode produce one PDF each: 1-3, 5, 8-10
• Duplicates are removed automatically; invalid or out-of-range entries are flagged with an inline message

On a phone, open this page in Safari (iPhone) or Chrome (Android), tap the upload area, and select your PDF from the Files app, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or wherever it's stored. Once uploaded, the tool reads the file and shows you the total page count so you know what range you're working with.

Type the pages you want into the text field the same way you would on desktop, then tap the extract button. On Android, the new PDF saves directly to your Download folder; on iPhone, Safari may open it in a preview tab first, where you can tap Share and choose Save to Files to keep it in your Files app.

The extracted pages keep their original content exactly as it was — text, images, and layout are copied over without re-rendering, so there's no quality loss from splitting a PDF this way. What does reset is the page numbering shown by your PDF viewer's own page counter: if you extract pages 10-15 from a 50-page document, your new file will show them as pages 1 through 6, since it's now a standalone six-page document.

Internal bookmarks and any table-of-contents links from the original file are not guaranteed to carry over, since the new PDF is rebuilt from scratch using only the selected pages. If the original document had printed page numbers baked into the page content itself (as part of the visible text), those stay visible even though the file's own internal numbering has reset.

The most frequent issue is a typo in the page range, like entering a dash the wrong way around (9-5 instead of 5-9) or mistyping a comma as a period. The tool catches these and explains them under the input box rather than producing an empty file, but it's still worth checking the page count shown after upload against the range you typed. The other common surprise is picking the wrong mode: split mode gives you one file per range, while extract mode combines the same ranges into a single document.

Password-protected or encrypted PDFs generally won't load correctly in a browser-based tool like this one, since the content is locked until the password is supplied elsewhere first. If your upload fails to show a page count at all, try opening the file in a PDF reader first to confirm it isn't corrupted or encrypted.