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How to split a PDF

Splitting a PDF means taking one document and turning it into several. The most common reason is a scan that contains many pages in one file, when you only need one of them — a single invoice from a monthly statement, one chapter from a report, or the signed page from a contract. This tool splits your PDF into individual pages, one PDF per page, and gives them to you as a ZIP file. You can also extract a page range (for example pages 3 to 7) as a single new PDF.

Drop a PDF and choose how to split it. "Every page" gives you one PDF per page, named by page number, inside a ZIP. "Page range" asks for a start and end page and gives you one PDF containing just those pages. The pages keep their original content, size, and order — splitting only divides the document, it never changes a page.

Everything runs in your browser, so the document never leaves your device. That matters when the PDF is a bank statement, a medical record, or a contract. There is no page limit beyond a sensible cap, and no daily limit, so you can split a 200-page scan in one go. If you only need a few pages, the range option is faster than downloading a ZIP of every page and deleting the ones you do not want.

A practical tip: if you split a PDF and then need the pages in a different order, use the Merge PDF tool afterwards — split, then merge in the order you want. The two tools are designed to work together, and because both run locally, the whole round trip takes seconds.

Two more ways to split. "By bookmark" cuts the document at each top-level bookmark and names each file after its chapter — handy for a manual or a report that already has a table of contents built in as bookmarks. It only works when the PDF actually has bookmarks; most scanned PDFs have none, and then the tool says so instead of guessing. "By text" cuts at every page containing a word or phrase you type, for example a chapter title that repeats through the document. It reads the PDF's text layer, so a scanned page with no text cannot match. In both modes, pages before the first bookmark or match go into the first file, so nothing is silently dropped.

How to use this tool

1. 1Drop a PDF file onto the page.
2. 2Choose "Every page", a page range (for example 3-7), "By bookmark", or "By text" and type the word to split at.
3. 3Download the ZIP of single pages, or the extracted range as one PDF.

Read the full guide: How to Split a PDF Into Separate Pages →