Split a PDF into Separate Pages, Chunks or Ranges
Pull out an admit card page, cut a long scan into equal parts, or save every page as its own file
Drop a PDF here
Pick pages, split every page, cut into chunks, or define ranges
Splitting happens entirely in your browser and the file is never uploaded anywhere. Pick pages to pull out an admit card from a long PDF, split every page to upload certificates one by one, or use ranges when a portal wants the marksheet and the degree as separate files.
About this tool
A marksheet and a degree often arrive from a college as one scanned PDF, while the portal asks for them as two uploads. An admit card sits on page 2 of a file that also carries six pages of instructions. This tool cuts a PDF apart the way the form wants, with every page shown as a thumbnail so you choose by sight.
There are four ways to split. Pick the pages you want, save every page as its own file, cut the document into chunks of a fixed length, or type ranges that each become a separate PDF. The preview colours each page by the file it will land in, and a summary counts the files and pages before anything is written.
Splitting runs in your browser with no upload. Pages are copied unchanged, so a split part is the same quality as the original.
How to split a PDF
- Drop a PDF onto the tool or click to choose one. Its pages appear as thumbnails with page numbers.
- Choose a mode on the left: Pick pages, Every page, Fixed chunks or Custom ranges.
- In Pick pages, click thumbnails or type a selection such as 1-3, 7. In Fixed chunks, choose the pages per file. In Custom ranges, type one range per line.
- Check the summary above the preview, which shows how many files and pages will be produced.
- Click Extract pages or Create N PDFs. A single output downloads as a PDF; several outputs come bundled in a zip.
The four split modes
| Mode | Use it when | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Pick pages | You need specific pages, such as the admit card on page 2 and the instructions on page 5 | One PDF holding those pages, or one file per page when Save each picked page as its own file is ticked |
| Every page | A portal wants each sheet uploaded on its own | As many one-page PDFs as there are pages, in a zip |
| Fixed chunks | A long scan has to go up in parts of equal length | Every N pages becomes a file; pick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 from the chips or type any number up to the page count |
| Custom ranges | Different documents sit inside one PDF at known pages | One PDF per range; separate ranges with a new line or a semicolon, and a page may appear in more than one file |
How page ranges are read
A selection is a list of page numbers and ranges separated by commas, counted from 1. Writing 1-3, 7 selects pages 1, 2, 3 and 7. A number past the last page is dropped silently, and a range that runs past the end is cut at the last page, so 10-20 in a 12-page file means pages 10 to 12.
In Pick pages, the quick chips fill the box for you. All, None, Odd and Even do what they say; First half and Second half divide at the middle, with the extra page of an odd count going to the first half. Clicking thumbnails updates the box to match, in compact form such as 1-3, 7.
In Custom ranges, each line or semicolon-separated entry becomes a file. A comma followed by another range also starts a new file, so 1-3, 4-6 produces two files, while 1, 3, 5 stays one file of three pages. The box is pre-filled with the document cut into two halves as a starting point.
File names and the zip
Output names are built from the original file name so the parts stay recognisable. A single extraction from admit-card.pdf is named admit-card-pages-2-3.pdf. In Every page mode, and for any one-page part, the name is admit-card-page-4.pdf. A multi-page part from Fixed chunks or Custom ranges is named admit-card-part-2-pages-11-20.pdf. When more than one file is produced, all of them are bundled as admit-card-split.zip.
Hypothetical example: a 23-page scanned application of 4.6 MB has to be uploaded in parts of at most 10 pages. Fixed chunks with 10 pages per file gives 23 divided by 10, rounded up, which is 3 files: pages 1-10, pages 11-20 and pages 21-23. The panel shows 3 files, 23 pages. Because a scan's size is spread across its page images, the parts come out roughly 2 MB, 2 MB and 0.6 MB, in proportion to their page counts.
Quality, size and limits
Pages are copied as whole objects, with their fonts, images and dimensions intact, so splitting never blurs a scan or shrinks text. For the same reason splitting cannot compress a page; a single page that is itself over a size cap needs its image rebuilt at a lower quality, and a split will not help it.
One PDF is handled at a time. A file that asks for a password cannot be opened and shows an error; open it in a viewer with the password and save a copy without one first. The thumbnails take a moment to render on a long document, and the split itself does not wait for them.
The pages-per-file number in Fixed chunks is clamped between 1 and the page count, so typing 0 or a larger number is corrected automatically.
Frequently asked questions
›How do I extract a single page from a PDF?
Choose Pick pages, click the thumbnail of the page (or type its number in the box) and click Extract pages. The output is a one-page PDF named after the original with the page number added, such as notification-page-2.pdf. To extract two separate pages as two separate files, tick Save each picked page as its own file.
›How do I split a PDF into separate files for each page?
Select Every page. The button changes to Create N PDFs, where N is the page count. Each page is written as its own one-page PDF and all of them download together in one zip, named after the original file with -split added. Unzip it and upload the pages the portal asks for.
›Can I split a PDF every 10 pages?
Yes. Choose Fixed chunks and click the 10 chip, or type any other number in the box beside it. The line under the chips shows the arithmetic, for example 45 pages divided by 10 gives 5 files, with the last file holding the remaining 5 pages. Each part is named with its page range.
›What does Pages may repeat across files mean?
In Custom ranges, nothing stops the same page from appearing in two ranges. Typing 1-3 on one line and 1-5 on the next gives two files, and pages 1 to 3 are in both. This is useful when a cover page or a declaration has to accompany each separately uploaded document.
›Why did I get a zip instead of a PDF?
A zip is used whenever the split produces more than one file, because only one download can be handed over at a time. Every page, Fixed chunks, multi-line Custom ranges and the one-file-per-page option in Pick pages all produce several PDFs. Extracting a single set of pages into one file gives a plain PDF.
›Will splitting make each part small enough for a 1 MB upload limit?
Often, for scans. A scanned PDF carries one image per page, so a 12-page, 6 MB scan split into single pages gives files of roughly 500 KB each. It does not help for a single heavy page, and it does not help for a text PDF whose size comes from embedded fonts that every part has to carry. Check the Size figure shown after the split.
›Does the order of pages change inside a split part?
No. Within each output file the pages keep the order they had in the original, from lowest page number to highest, even if you clicked the thumbnails in a different order. The tool sorts the selection before writing it, so a part never has page 7 ahead of page 3.