How do I extract specific pages like 1-3, 5, 7?

Choose Extract Custom Range and type your page list in the input field. Commas separate segments, dashes specify ranges. You can mix and match: 1-3, 5, 7-9, 12 will produce a 7-page PDF with those exact pages in ascending order.

What does Split Every Page do?

It produces one single-page PDF for every page in your document, then packages them all into a ZIP archive with numbered filenames (page-001.pdf, page-002.pdf, etc.). Ideal for turning a scanned document into individual files.

What's the Visual Selector mode?

Click any page thumbnail to toggle it in or out of your selection. Use Select All, Clear, or Invert to speed up large documents. When you extract, only the highlighted pages are included in the output PDF — reordered in ascending page-number order.

Can I split encrypted PDFs?

Password-protected PDFs that require a password to open can't be processed. PDFs with only permission restrictions (no printing, no copying) usually work — we load them with the encryption-ignoring flag. If a specific PDF fails, remove its protection first.

Will splitting preserve quality?

Yes. Pages are copied as-is into the new PDF without re-rendering or re-compressing images. Text stays selectable, vector graphics stay sharp, embedded fonts stay embedded.

How many pages can I split at once?

There's no hard limit — browser memory is the constraint. A 500-page PDF splits into 500 single-page files in 10–30 seconds on a modern laptop. Above 1000 pages, memory pressure can slow things down, but smaller extractions remain fast.

Why do the thumbnails take a moment to render?

Each thumbnail requires parsing the file and rasterizing the page to a canvas. This runs in a background worker, but rendering 100 pages still takes a few seconds. Thumbnails populate as they finish — you can start selecting as soon as the first ones appear.

Do the extracted pages keep the original order?

Yes. Whether you enter 5, 1-3 in the range field or click pages out of order in the Visual Selector, the output PDF always contains pages in ascending order (1, 2, 3, 5). This matches how every professional PDF tool behaves.

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Three split modes — pick what fits your workflow.

Upload your PDF

Drop a PDF file or click the dropzone. All pages render as thumbnails in a grid — usually within a second for short documents, a few seconds for 100+ page files.

Choose a split mode

Extract Custom Range: type ranges like 1-3, 5, 7 to produce one trimmed PDF. Split Every Page: generate one 1-page PDF per page, packed into a ZIP. Visual Selector: click the thumbnails you want to keep.

Download the result

Click Extract or Split. The tool rebuilds the PDF(s) instantly and produces a direct download — a single PDF or a ZIP archive of every page.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Everything runs instantly. Your files never leave your device — no uploads, no API calls, no storage.

About the PDF Splitter

Everything you need to know

Why split PDFs?

Traditional PDF splitters upload your documents to a remote server, process them, and stream the results back. That exposes sensitive files — contracts, invoices, medical records, IDs — to third-party infrastructure, uses bandwidth, and often has file-size limits. This tool reads, selects, and rebuilds PDFs instantly on your device. Zero upload, zero server, zero privacy risk.

When to use each mode

Extract Custom Range is best for pulling a handful of specific pages — a signed signature page, a particular chapter, or an appendix. Split Every Page is best for turning a scanned bundle into individual files or separating a multi-receipt scan into single receipts. Visual Selector is best when you don't know the page numbers offhand and want to eyeball which pages to keep.

Understanding the range syntax

The custom range parser accepts a comma-separated list of single pages and inclusive ranges: 1-3 means pages 1, 2, 3; 5 means just page 5. You can combine them freely: 1-3, 5, 7-9, 12 produces a 7-page document. Reversed ranges like 5-3 are normalized to 3-5. Duplicates are silently removed. Out-of-bounds pages raise a clear error before any work is done.

Performance and quality

Page extraction is a data-structure operation, not an image operation. Pages are copied with their original content streams intact — text stays text, vectors stay vectors, embedded fonts stay embedded. The only cost is memory: loading a PDF roughly doubles its size in RAM during extraction. After download, memory is released. A modern laptop splits a 200-page 50MB PDF in under 10 seconds.