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Split PDF

Break a PDF into separate one-page files — grab exactly the pages you need.

Split

Drag & drop a file here, or

Accepts .pdf

  1. Upload a PDF.
  2. It is split into one PDF per page.
  3. Download the pages as a ZIP.

Need just a few pages out of a big PDF? This tool splits a document into individual one-page PDFs, delivered together as a ZIP, so you can keep exactly the pages you want and discard the rest. To put pages back together afterwards, use merge PDF.

When pulling pages out of a PDF saves the day

Big PDFs accumulate pages nobody needs. A 60-page board pack might hold the three slides you actually want to forward; a scanned booklet might bury one signed form in the middle. Rather than email the whole brick and make the recipient hunt, splitting lets you keep precisely the pages that matter and drop the rest. Each page comes back as its own one-page PDF, bundled into a single ZIP for a tidy download.

This is the natural inverse of assembly. After you split a document down to its components, you can reorder and recombine the keepers with merge PDF to build a leaner, purpose-built file. Splitting first and merging second is often faster than trying to delete pages one by one inside a heavyweight editor.

What splitting does and does not change

Splitting copies each page's content exactly as it stands. Selectable text stays selectable, embedded images keep their resolution, and nothing is re-compressed, so a page extracted from a contract reads identically to the original. The tool simply slices the document at every page boundary and wraps each slice in its own PDF.

  • Page-level only: every page becomes a separate file, so you choose which to keep after download.
  • No quality loss: content is duplicated, not re-rendered.
  • ZIP delivery: all pages arrive together in one archive.

If a page came out sideways in the original scan, run the extracted file through rotate PDF before sharing it, and shrink anything bulky with compress PDF.

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Frequently asked questions

How are the split pages delivered?
Each page of your document becomes its own single-page PDF, and all of those files are bundled into one ZIP archive. You download the ZIP once and then keep whichever pages you need.
Can I split out just a range of pages?
The tool splits the whole document into one PDF per page. To end up with a specific range, download the ZIP, keep the pages you want, and recombine them with the merge tool into a single file.
Does splitting reduce the quality of each page?
No. Page content is copied exactly with no re-compression, so text stays selectable and images stay sharp. An extracted page is a faithful copy of the original.
Can I put the pages back together later?
Yes. Use the merge tool to reassemble selected pages into one document, in whatever order you choose. Splitting then merging is a common way to rebuild a trimmed-down PDF.