Split PDF
Cut a PDF into several files by page range
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About Split PDF
Split takes one PDF and cuts it into several, either at page ranges you specify or into one file per page. The original is left untouched — the tool writes new documents and leaves the source on your disk exactly as it was.
Both the source document and every output stay on your machine. The ZIP is assembled in the browser, so nothing is transmitted even when you split a document into fifty files.
How to use Split PDF
- Load the PDF you want to divide.
- Choose a split mode — fixed ranges such as 1-4, 5-9, every N pages, or one file per page.
- For a range split, type the ranges or tick pages on the page thumbnails; each thumbnail carries its page number, so you can see where the cuts fall.
- Split, then save each part on its own or all of them as one ZIP archive.
On a production
Insurance schedules and rental agreements often arrive as one long PDF covering the whole shoot. Splitting the pages that concern a single unit, or a single piece of kit, gives you something you can forward without exposing the rest of the production's commercial terms.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I extract non-contiguous pages into one file?
- For scattered pages — say 2, 7 and 11 into a single document — use Extract Pages instead. Split is built around contiguous ranges; Extract is built around arbitrary selections.
- Do the split files keep the original's metadata?
- Title, author, subject, keywords, the creating application, the creation date and the language are copied to each part so the provenance survives; XMP metadata, attachments and scripts are not. If you are splitting a document to send onward, run Remove Metadata on the pieces first.
- What happens to bookmarks that point outside a range?
- Each part keeps the bookmarks that point at its own pages, moved to their new positions. A bookmark whose page lands in another part is dropped from this one, title and all, and the bookmarks nested under it move up a level. Links between pages of the same part keep working; a link into another part is removed.
- Can one part give away what is in another?
- No. Every part is built from its own pages only. A page that links to a page in another part, or shares a form field or embedded images with it, does not carry that page's content along — which matters when the parts go to different people.