Two ways to split, one honest engine
“Split a PDF” means two different jobs, and this tool does both. The first is extraction: you have a 40-page document and need pages 12 through 15 as their own file — one new PDF, exactly those pages, in order. The second is bursting: every page becomes its own single-page PDF, which is what you want when a scanner has jammed twenty separate receipts into one file.
Either way, the splitting is done by code running in your browser, not on a server. The document you're dividing — the lease, the medical file, the signed contract — is opened on your own device and never travels anywhere. There's no upload bar because there's no upload.
Page ranges that work the way you'd write them
The range box accepts the notation you'd naturally type: 1-3, 5, 8-10 takes pages one through three, page five, and eight through ten. Out-of-range numbers are ignored rather than causing errors, duplicates are removed, and the extracted pages always come out in document order. The tool shows you the page count the moment you add a file, so you're never guessing whether the appendix starts on page 31 or 32 — open the file in your viewer, note the pages, and type them in.
What splitting is useful for
- Sending only what's needed — share the two pages of a contract that actually require review instead of the whole agreement.
- Separating combined scans — one scanning pass, twenty receipts: burst them and file each on its own.
- Meeting upload limits — when a portal caps file size, extract the required section, then shrink it further with the Compress PDF tool.
- Reorganizing documents — extract sections as separate files, then reassemble them in a new order with the PDF merger.
Quality is untouched in every mode: pages are copied, not re-rendered, so fonts, images, and layout stay exactly as they were in the original.