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Split PDF (Extract Pages)

Split a PDF into separate files by page range, in your browser. Extract just the pages you need — nothing is uploaded and no sign-up is asked for.

Drop a PDF here

One PDF, up to 100 MB.

This file is read in this tab. It is never uploaded, and nothing is saved — not even on this device.

A split PDF is a set of files, not one thing, so the tool's whole job is showing you that set before it exists — every file it's about to write, named and counted, next to the field where you typed the pages that produced it.

Split PDF by page range

Drop a PDF and type the pages you want in the field: a hyphen for a range (3-7), a comma to start a new file (3-7,12-20), or a bare number for a single page (8). Each comma-separated group becomes its own output file — 1-3,8,12-20 is three files, not one — and the list beneath the field shows every one of them as you type: a badge, the pages it holds written as a phrase like "Pages 3 to 7", the page count, and the exact file name it will be saved as. Nothing is written until you press Split PDF, and the file you see in that list is the file you'll get — the preview and the split read the same parsed selection, not two separate readings of the field that could drift apart.

Checking "Put all the pages in one file" changes what the groups produce: instead of one file per group, every page from every group lands in a single file, in document order. Typing 3-7,12-20 with the box checked gives you one nine-page file instead of two.

Extract pages from a PDF

The same field answers the narrower question of pulling a handful of pages out of a longer document. Type the pages you want and leave everything else alone: a single number like 8 extracts one page as its own file, and a short list like 3,9,14 extracts three individual pages as three separate files. For extracting every page of a document at once with nothing to type, switch to "Every page separately" — there's no field in that mode, it's available for documents up to 50 pages, and it's the answer for a phone keyboard that makes commas and hyphens awkward to type at all.

How page ranges are written, and why pages start at 1

Pages are counted from 1, the way a printed document is, never from 0. The file's own summary states this plainly — "40 pages, numbered 1 to 40" — and every part built from it repeats the same numbering: a card title reading "Pages 3 to 7" rather than an index, a page count stated on its own line, and a file name that carries the same numbers, like report-pages-3-7.pdf. Type 0 and the tool tells you directly that pages start at 1; type a number past the document's last page and it tells you the real page count instead of failing silently.

Two rules apply once a selection is typed, whatever order it was typed in. Pages always come out in document order, so typing 9,3 produces a file holding page 3 then page 9, not the order you typed them — the tool says so under the field when that happens. And a page is never duplicated across files: 3-7,5 doesn't put page 5 in two files, because page 5 is already inside the 3-7 range, so that second group produces nothing on its own. If a backwards range like 7-3 is typed, it's not silently corrected to 3-7 — the tool asks you to write it the way you meant, because guessing which way you meant it is how the wrong pages end up in someone's inbox.

Splitting builds each output file by copying the selected pages' content into a new PDF, and that copy carries what's printed on the page but not the structure sitting around it in the original document. A chapter list in the navigation pane, a form's fillable field definitions, an internal link that jumped to another page of the source — none of it survives, even when every page you selected had it. A form you'd already filled in loses the typed values specifically because they live in those dropped field definitions rather than printed on the page; flatten the form in a PDF reader first if the entered text needs to stay readable in the split-out file.

Any pages you didn't select aren't silently dropped without comment, either — if your selection leaves part of the document out, the tool names exactly which pages ended up in none of the output files, both before you split and again once the files are ready.

Multiple files, one prompt: what "Download multiple files?" means

Splitting into more than one file means more than one browser download, and there's no ZIP archive bundling them — each part downloads as its own PDF. Chrome, Edge and Brave notice a page trying to trigger several downloads in a row and ask first, with a "Download multiple files?" prompt before the second file arrives. Choosing Block stops everything after the first file, and the page has no way to find out that happened — nothing throws and nothing looks different, the remaining files simply never arrive. That's why the notice under "Download all" is permanent rather than a one-off warning: it states plainly that your browser may ask, and once you've pressed the button, it tells you what a block looks like and how to recover from it. The per-file Download button beside each row in the finished list never triggers that prompt at all, because it's one press for one file — reach for it directly if "Download all" doesn't produce everything you expected.

When printing to PDF is faster than this tool

If all you want is pages 3 to 7 of a document open in a PDF viewer, opening the print dialog, typing that page range and choosing "Save as PDF" gets you one file in a few clicks with no other tool involved. For a single quick range, that's often the faster path, and it's worth using.

Where this tool earns its place instead is everything print-to-PDF can't do in one pass: several page ranges as several separate files from one drop, an exact set of files whose names and page counts you can check before anything is saved, and output built by copying the original pages directly rather than re-rendering the document through a print pipeline that can shift fonts or image quality. If you're pulling one range once, print it. If you're cutting a document into three, five or a dozen named files, or you want to confirm exactly what each file will hold before it's written, that's this tool's job.

Password-protected PDFs

A PDF that reports itself as encrypted is refused outright rather than guessed at:

"This PDF is password-protected, so its pages cannot be read. Open it in a PDF reader with the password, save an unlocked copy, and split that instead."

That's a statement of what's true about the file, not a failure of the tool — splitting is not the same job as unlocking, and attempting to strip a password would be indistinguishable from lock-picking. Open the file with the password in a PDF reader, save an unlocked copy from there, and drop that copy here instead.

Nothing survives after you leave

The document you drop exists only in this tab's memory for as long as the tab stays open. There's no upload and no local save on your own device — refreshing the page, closing the tab or pressing Start over clears everything, including files you haven't downloaded yet. That's deliberate: a splitter that remembered the last document or the last page range between visits would be keeping a trace of exactly the kind of file it promised not to.

Questions

How do I split a PDF into separate files by page range?
Drop or choose one PDF, then type the pages you want in the field — 3-7 for a range, or 3,5,9 for a comma-separated list of single pages. Each comma-separated group becomes its own output file by default, so typing 1-3,8,12-20 produces three files: pages 1 to 3, page 8, and pages 12 to 20. The list under the field updates on every keystroke and shows exactly what each file will contain and what it will be named before you press Split PDF, so there's no guessing what you're about to get.
How do I extract just one page from a PDF?
Type that page's number on its own, like 8, and press Split PDF — the output is a single-page file named after the source, such as report-page-8.pdf. If you want several individual pages as separate files rather than one range, list them with commas: 3,9,14 produces three one-page files. And if you want every page of the document as its own file with no typing at all, switch to "Every page separately" instead — that mode has no field, it's available for documents up to 50 pages, and it exists specifically because a phone keyboard makes typing commas and hyphens awkward.
Can I split a PDF free, with no sign-up or daily limit?
Yes — there's no account, no sign-up, and no limit tied to a day or a session. The only ceilings are the ones the tool states outright: one PDF up to 100 MB, and a split that stops at 50 output files (naming the real count and the limit if you ask for more, rather than silently truncating). Neither number resets on a timer and neither is a paywall — there's nothing here to pay for at any size under those limits.
Does splitting a PDF without uploading actually mean nothing leaves my device?
Yes, and it's a fact about how the code is built rather than a promise about what it chooses to do. The file you drop is read into this browser tab's memory and cut into separate PDFs by a library running in that same tab — there is no server call anywhere in this tool, so there's no address for a file to be sent to even if it wanted to be. The pages of your document, and the page numbers you typed to select them, never travel anywhere outside the tab.
Can I extract pages from a PDF offline, without an internet connection?
Once the page has loaded and you've read your first PDF into it, yes — from that point the splitting itself touches the network for nothing. Loading the page the first time needs a connection, and the first PDF you add in a session triggers a one-time download of the PDF engine that does the actual page-copying. After that engine has loaded, you can drop more files, retype the page range, and split again with no connection at all, right up until you close or reload the tab.
Do bookmarks, form fields and internal links survive when I split a PDF?
No. Each output file is built by copying the selected pages' visible content into a brand-new PDF, and that copy carries the page content but not the surrounding structure that pointed at it — an outline entry that named a chapter starting on page 12, a fillable field's underlying definition, an internal link that jumped to another page in the original document. None of it transfers, even when the source PDF had all of it. If you'd filled in a form before splitting, the values you typed live in those dropped field definitions rather than printed on the page, so they don't survive the split either — flatten the form in a PDF reader first if you need the entered text to stay.
Why does it say my PDF is password-protected when I try to split it?
Because it is, and an encrypted PDF can't be read at all — not by this tool, not by any tool — until it's unlocked with the password it was saved with. The message is exact: "This PDF is password-protected, so its pages cannot be read. Open it in a PDF reader with the password, save an unlocked copy, and split that instead." This tool doesn't attempt to guess, crack or strip a password, because doing that to someone's own document would be indistinguishable from doing it to someone else's. Open the file in a PDF reader, save an unlocked copy, and drop that copy here instead.
Why did my browser block the download when I split a PDF into several files?
Splitting into more than one file means more than one save, and Chrome, Edge and Brave ask permission before letting a page trigger several downloads at once — that's the "Download multiple files?" prompt, and choosing Block stops every file after the first from arriving with no error shown on the page, because the page genuinely isn't told the request was blocked. Nothing is lost: every part still has its own Download button in the list below the big "Download all" button, and pressing each one individually never triggers that prompt at all. Allowing multiple downloads for this site in your browser's settings makes "Download all" work in one press going forward.
Is there a limit to how many pages or files I can split a PDF into?
The document itself can be up to 100 MB, and a single split is capped at 50 output files — past that, the tool tells you the real count you asked for and stops rather than truncating your request silently, because a browser asking permission for dozens of sequential downloads in a row stops being a useful thing to do at all. "Every page separately" mode follows the same 50-file ceiling and is simply unavailable above 50 pages, with the page count stated in the message so the limit doesn't read as arbitrary. Page ranges combined into one file with the "Put all the pages in one file" checkbox never hit this cap at all, because that path produces one file no matter how many ranges you type.