What is splitting a PDF?
Extract the pages you want from a PDF into a new file — ideal for keeping just a few pages of a contract, breaking a long report into parts, or dropping pages you don’t need. Everything runs locally in your browser with no upload.
How to use it
- Select or drop in a PDF.
- Enter the page ranges to keep (e.g. 1-3, 5).
- Click Download for a new PDF with just those pages.
Handy tips
- Pages start at 1; out-of-range numbers are skipped automatically.
- Want to join files instead? Use Merge PDF.
- Want pages as images? Use PDF to JPG.
Extracting one page is really a diagnostic
Pull page 3 out of our five-page document (334.1 KB) and you get 331.2 KB (-<1%). Pull page 4 and you get 1.4 KB (-99%). Same file, same operation, one page either way — and one keeps nearly every byte while the other comes to 1,397 bytes. This is why the instinct that “two pages out of ten is about a fifth” goes so badly wrong: bytes are not allocated per page, they are allocated per content. Page 3 holds a photograph; page 4 holds text. Turn that around and this tool becomes a probe: when a PDF is too big and you do not know where the weight is, extract each page separately and look for the output that stands out. That page is your culprit. Then decide whether to run Compress PDF or simply drop it with Organize PDF.