How to Split a PDF Into Separate Pages

Splitting a PDF the right way

A long PDF is often more useful in pieces. A 60-page report where you only need chapter three. A scanned contract where one page has to go to the bank. A workbook where each student gets one page. Splitting is the answer, and it is a simple job — but only if the tool splits by pages, cleanly, without touching the content of the pages themselves.

This tool offers two ways to split, and they cover nearly every real case. The first is Every page: the PDF is divided so that each page becomes its own one-page PDF, and you download them together as a ZIP. That is the right choice when the pages go to different people or different places — one page per student, one page per client, one page per folder. The second is a page range: you type the pages you need, for example 3-7, and you get a single PDF containing exactly those pages, in order. That is the right choice when you need one section of a document — a chapter, a form, a signed page — and nothing else.

The tool splits four ways: every page, a page range, by bookmark, or by text. If your document has bookmarks for each chapter, choose By bookmark — the tool cuts at each top-level bookmark and names each file after its chapter. With By text, type a word that appears at the start of each chapter. If you need pages that are not next to each other — pages 2, 5, and 9, for example — type a list like "2, 5, 9" or split every page and download only the three files you need.

Splitting never changes what is on a page. Each page is copied exactly as it is into the new file — text, photos, and layout untouched. A split page is not a photo of the original and not a re-typed copy; it is the same page, in a new file. That matters when the page has to look official, like a signed page or a certificate: the signature, the stamp, and the letterhead come out exactly as they went in. The file size tells the same story. A 10 MB document split into ten pages gives you ten files that add up to about 10 MB, because nothing was thrown away and nothing was compressed. If a split file looks smaller than you expected, check that you selected the right pages — the tool does not shrink anything on its own.

There are two limits to know before you start. First, one PDF at a time, up to 100 MB. If you have five documents to split, do them one after another; each split takes seconds, and there is no daily limit. Second, a password-protected PDF cannot be split until it is unlocked — use the Unlock PDF tool first. A damaged PDF should be repaired first with the Repair PDF tool, because a split can only copy pages that the tool can actually read.

A few practical tips. Count the pages before you type a range: open the PDF, note the page numbers of the section you need, and type them as start-end, for example 3-7. Page 1 is the first page of the document, not the first page of the chapter, so a chapter that starts on the printed page 12 is page 12 in the range box. If you are splitting every page, give the ZIP a clear name when you save it — the files inside are named after the original document, so a file called report.pdf becomes report-page-1.pdf, report-page-2.pdf, and so on, which makes them easy to find later. And keep the original. Splitting is non-destructive — your source file is never changed — but keeping it means you can always split it differently later.

The whole job runs in your browser. Your file is never uploaded to a server, so a contract, a medical record, or a school document never leaves your device. Open the tool, drop one PDF, choose every page or one range, and download exactly the pages you need.

How to use this tool

1. 1Drop a PDF file onto the Split PDF page.
2. 2Choose Every page to get one file per page, or Page range for one section.
3. 3For a range, type the pages like 3-7.
4. 4Press Split PDF.
5. 5Download the pages you need — one by one, or all together as a ZIP.