Can I extract specific page ranges?

Yes. You can select individual pages or specify custom ranges. The tool gives you full control over which pages end up in your output PDF.

Does splitting reduce PDF quality?

Not at all. Pages are extracted without any re-compression or quality loss.

Is there a page limit?

You can split PDFs of any page count. For best browser performance, we recommend files under 10 MB.

PDF Splitter

Split PDF files into individual pages or custom page ranges. Free, instant, and private. No signup required — your files are processed entirely in your browser.

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The syntax this tool understands

Leave the range field blank and you'll get one PDF per page — a 40‑page document becomes 40 one‑page files. Fill it in and each comma‑separated entry becomes a separate output. 1-3 gives you a three‑page PDF containing pages one, two, and three. 5 on its own produces a one‑page PDF of page five. A mixed entry like 1-3, 5, 8-10 produces three files. Out‑of‑range numbers are ignored silently; the maximum end of a range is clamped to the total page count so 50-9999 on a 50‑page document just gives you page fifty.

Under the hood, pdf-lib opens the source PDF, copies the chosen page objects into a new document via copyPages, and serialises that document back out. The page objects — including their content streams, fonts, and embedded images — are carried across byte-for-byte. No rendering, no re-compression, no resolution change.

When splitting is the right tool

A bank or utility has sent you a year of statements as one big PDF and you only need the October page.
You scanned a stack of receipts as one document and need to attach individual receipts to separate expense claims.
You want to email the signature page of a contract without sending the other 30 pages of boilerplate.
A printer is choking on a 200‑page file and you want to print it in chunks of 20.
Your university's submission portal has a 5 MB limit and you need to split a thesis into chapter PDFs.

What it can't do

It can't split password‑protected PDFs without the password — pdf-lib will throw before it can read the page tree. It can't split a scanned PDF at arbitrary visual boundaries; it works on logical pages, not column or paragraph boundaries. Bookmarks and table-of-contents trees that reference pages you kept will usually be broken in the output because pdf-lib doesn't rewrite the outlines dictionary for copied page objects. Digital signatures on the source document become invalid the moment you split it — that's how PDF signatures are supposed to work.

Privacy

The file is read into an ArrayBuffer in your tab, passed to pdf-lib, and the resulting Blob URLs are yours alone. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or persisted. Close the tab and the copies in memory are gone.