PDF Split
Extract specific pages from a PDF document
Drop a PDF here or click to browse
Select the PDF you want to split
Pulling pages out of a PDF
Splitting comes up when you need part of a document and not the whole thing: one chapter to email, a single invoice out of a bundled batch, the three pages of a contract that need a signature. The tool reads your PDF on your own machine and returns a new file with only the pages you name.
How to get the pages you want
- Drop the PDF onto the page, or click to pick it from a file dialog.
- Type the pages you want in the range box, counting from 1 the way you read them.
- Download the result, which holds those pages in the order the source had them.
The range box reads a few patterns: a single number like 5 for one page, a range like 1-3 for the first three, a comma list like 1,3,5 for scattered pages, and a mix like 1-3,7,10-12 for all of it at once. Overlaps get deduplicated, so 1-3,2-4 yields pages one through four with nothing repeated.pdf-lib counts pages from zero internally, and the tool does that conversion for you.
Two things that surprise people
A short extract from a big PDF can come out larger than the page count suggests, because each page carries the fonts and images it references, and a heavy custom font used on every page rides along with your three pages. The output re-saves with object stream compression, which claws back some of that weight. Bookmarks do not carry over: the extract comes out with no outline, so re-add bookmarks in a PDF editor if you need them. For a smaller result, run the extract through PDF Compress.
Questions that come up
- Can I split one PDF into several separate files?
- Each run produces one file with the pages you asked for. To get separate files, run the tool a few times with different ranges. The file stays selected between runs, so each extra split is one new range and one click.
- How do I grab every other page?
- List them: for a 20-page file you would type 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19. Tedious for long documents, so if you do it often, generate the sequence in a spreadsheet and paste it in.
- Why did the tool reject my PDF?
- Almost always password protection or a corrupted structure. Encrypted page streams stay ciphertext until the password is supplied, so the tool fails fast with a message. For a malformed file, open it in Preview or Acrobat and save a clean copy first.