Split PDF
See every page as a preview, tap the ones you need, and download just those — or split every page into its own file. Private, and never stored.
- Never stored
- No queue, no waiting
- No signup, no watermark
How it works
Add your PDF
Drop a PDF onto the page or click to pick one. Page previews appear right away.
Pick your pages
Review the page thumbnails and tap the ones you want — or choose "every page separately".
Download
Get one PDF with your selected pages, or a ZIP with each page as its own file.
What a split file carries out of the original
Each result is a new document holding copies of the pages you chose. The pages arrive as they were — same content stream, same embedded fonts, same page boxes and rotation — and the annotations sitting on them come too, so links and comments on a page you kept are still there.
There is one artefact worth knowing about. A link pointing at a page you did not take still has to point somewhere, so a copy of that page is pulled into the new file as an object no page tree references: invisible in every reader, present in the bytes, and the link itself lands nowhere. Taking two pages out of a heavily cross-linked report can produce a file several times larger than two pages of content.
Splitting every page into its own file multiplies whatever the pages had in common. A font subset or a letterhead used on all forty pages is stored forty times over, once in each file, so a ZIP of single pages routinely totals twice the size of the document it came from. Document-level structure does not reach the pieces either — no outline, no page labels, no document information — because each piece is a document built from one page, not a copy of the original with pages taken out.
When you want something else
To burst a very large document, pdfseparate in.pdf page-%d.pdf from Poppler writes each page straight to disk instead of assembling an archive in memory, and does not care how many pages there are.
To keep the bookmark outline and the document information on an extracted range, qpdf can do what this cannot: qpdf in.pdf --pages . 5-12 -- out.pdf keeps the input as the primary document, so its catalogue — outline, tags, language, title — comes through onto the pages you took.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF stored when I split it?
No. Splitting stores nothing — the file is never kept. There is nothing for us to store or see. Even the page previews are rendered locally.
How do I choose which pages to extract?
Every page shows as a thumbnail preview. Tap a page to select it, tap again to unselect — a checkmark shows what's picked. Select all and Clear buttons handle whole-document choices in one tap.
Can I split every page into its own PDF?
Yes — choose "Every page separately" and you get a ZIP file with one single-page PDF per page, named by page number.
Does splitting reduce quality?
No. Pages are copied exactly as they are — no recompression, no rescaling, nothing changes visually.
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
Not directly — remove the password with Unlock PDF first, then split.
Good to know: Splitting a very large PDF into hundreds of separate files builds the ZIP in memory, which can be slow on older phones. For huge documents, extracting smaller ranges is faster.
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