Extract pages, cut custom ranges, chop every N pages, or burst one PDF into a file per page, entirely in your browser. Your PDF never leaves your device.

Taking one PDF apart

You need pages 4 to 9 of a sixty page report and nobody wants the other fifty-four. Or a scanner has handed back one long file that is really eleven invoices.

Add the PDF, choose how to cut it, download the result.

The constraint to know first: this tool works by page number. There are no clickable page thumbnails, so you need to know which pages you want before you start. If you are not sure, open the file in your usual PDF reader alongside this page.

A live line above the button states what you are about to get, in pages and in files, before anything is built.

Four ways to cut it

Extract pages pulls the pages you name into one new PDF. Type something like 1-3, 5, 8-10 and you get those pages, in the order you listed them.

Split into ranges reads each comma group as its own file. 1-5, 6-10 gives you two PDFs rather than one.

Every N pages cuts the document into equal chunks. If the total does not divide evenly, the last chunk is shorter.

Burst turns every page into its own one-page PDF.

When a split produces more than one file, they arrive together in a single ZIP.

What the new files carry

Pages are copied, not re-rendered. Text stays selectable, images keep their original resolution, and each page keeps the size it had in the original.

The document properties do not come with them. Title, author, subject, keywords, and the XMP metadata block are cleared, so a couple of pages pulled out of a work document do not announce where they came from.

Bookmarks and interactive form fields do not survive either. Each output is built fresh from page content, so anything that lived in the original's structure is left behind.

A password-protected PDF cannot be read without its password, so the tool says plainly that the file is locked and asks you to unlock it first. A corrupt file gets a different message, so you can tell the two apart.

Your file stays with you

The PDF is not uploaded.

It is read into browser memory, cut apart there, and the results download to your device. No server is involved.

The page does fetch its own machinery, and it is worth being exact about it. Adding a PDF loads pdf-lib (about 511 KB) from noadstools.com, to read the page count and build the outputs. A split that produces more than one file also loads JSZip (about 97 KB) from the same place, to bundle them. Both come from this site rather than a third-party CDN, and neither carries any part of your document.

Because JSZip only arrives the first time you need a ZIP, a session of single-file splits has not loaded it. Once a library is there, the work it does needs no network.

All of it is visible in DevTools on the Network tab: the libraries come down, nothing of yours goes up.

The full source code is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license, and the privacy page holds the same two entries for this tool.

Questions

Can I split a PDF online for free without making an account?

Yes.

No signup, no watermark on the files you get out, and no page cap. Your PDF is opened, cut, and saved by your browser.

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

No.

The file stays in your browser's memory while the page is open, and the split files are built and downloaded there. The only things that travel are the two libraries this page loads from noadstools.com.

How do I extract specific pages from a PDF?

Choose Extract pages and type the ones you want, for example 1-3, 5, 8-10.

You get one PDF with exactly those pages, in the order you listed them. Typing 5, 1 puts page 5 first.

How do I split one PDF into several separate files?

Use Split into ranges and give each output its own comma group, so 1-5, 6-10 produces two files.

Every N pages cuts the document into equal chunks, and Burst gives one file per page. Whenever there is more than one output, they come down together in a ZIP named after the original.

Can I split a password-protected PDF?

Not while it is encrypted.

A locked PDF cannot be read without its password, so the tool refuses it rather than producing blank pages. Remove the password in the app that made the document, then add it here again.

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Merge PDF | combine PDF files in any order. PDF to JPG | turn pages into images instead. PDF to Text | pull the text out of a document. Watermark PDF | stamp text or a logo across the pages.