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Split, extract, or reorder pages — nothing leaves your device.

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How it works

  1. Drop your PDF

    Drag a file in or choose one from your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

  2. Pick your pages

    Click thumbnails in any order, or type a range like "1-3, 5, 8-10".

  3. Choose a split mode

    One combined PDF with your selected pages, or a separate file per page.

  4. Download instantly

    Get each file individually, or all of them at once as a .zip.

The PDF Splitter lets you pull pages out of a PDF — a single range, a scattered set of individual pages, or every page as its own file — without ever sending your document anywhere. Everything happens locally in your browser tab using pdf-lib, a library that edits a PDF's internal object structure directly rather than converting pages to images and reassembling them.

That distinction matters more than it might seem. Many "quick and dirty" PDF tools render each page to a bitmap and rebuild the output from those images, which is slow for long documents and destroys anything that depended on the page being real vector content — selectable, searchable text, crisp text at any zoom level, and small file sizes. This tool instead copies the underlying page objects from the source document into a new PDF, which is why a 200-page technical manual splits in well under a second and the output is byte-for-byte as sharp and searchable as the original.

Start by dropping a PDF onto the page or choosing one from your file picker. A thumbnail grid of every page renders locally so you can see exactly what you're selecting before committing to anything. From there you have two ways to build a selection: click thumbnails directly (the order you click in becomes the output order, which means you can reorder pages just by choosing them out of sequence), or type a range like 1-3, 5, 8-10 into the text field for faster entry on longer documents.

Once pages are selected, choose whether you want a single output PDF containing exactly those pages in that order, or a separate PDF per selected page — useful when you need to hand out individual pages of a contract or scanned form. If your split produces more than one file, a "download all as .zip" option bundles everything together so you're not clicking through downloads one at a time. Every file this tool ever touches — the source PDF, the intermediate page data, and the resulting split files — stays in your browser's memory for the duration of the operation and is never transmitted over the network.

FAQ

Are my PDF files uploaded to a server?
No. The PDF Splitter runs entirely in your browser using a client-side library (pdf-lib). Your file is read into memory and processed on your device — it is never uploaded, and no network request is made during splitting.
Will splitting a PDF reduce its quality or remove the text layer?
No. This tool works directly on the PDF's internal page structure rather than rendering pages to images, so vector content, fonts, and the searchable text layer are preserved exactly as in the source file.
Can I extract specific pages instead of splitting by range?
Yes. You can click individual page thumbnails to select them in any order, type a range like "1-3, 5, 8-10", and choose whether to extract them into a single PDF or export each selected page as its own file.
Is there a file size limit?
Files under 100MB process without any warning. Larger files up to 400MB will process but may be slower depending on your device; files above 400MB are rejected up front with a suggestion to split the source file first.
Does this work with password-protected PDFs?
Not currently. Encrypted or password-protected PDFs are rejected with a clear message — remove the password using your PDF viewer first, then upload the unprotected file.