Split PDF Online — Extract Pages Free

Split PDF separates one large document into smaller files or extracts only the pages you need. It is designed for practical document cleanup: removing blank pages, sending a single chapter, or separating a long scan into useful sections.

What happens in the browser

The splitter reads the source PDF page tree, copies selected pages into new PDF documents, and writes those outputs in the browser. Page content is preserved rather than retyped or converted, so fonts, images, and selectable text stay as close to the original as possible.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. Load the PDF from your device.
  2. Choose page ranges, individual pages, or an every-page split mode.
  3. Check the selected ranges before generating output.
  4. Create the split files locally.
  5. Download each file or a packaged set depending on the tool options.

When this tool is useful

  • Extracting only the signed page from a longer agreement.
  • Separating bank statements, bills, or receipts by month.
  • Removing unwanted pages before uploading a document.
  • Breaking a large report into smaller review sections.

Limitations to know before downloading

  • Links pointing to removed pages may no longer work.
  • Form fields that depend on pages outside the selected range can behave differently.
  • Splitting does not automatically OCR scanned pages or compress large images.

Privacy and file handling

Splitting is performed with client-side PDF operations. The file stays on your device and the output is generated in the current browser session.

Splitting a PDF — by page, by range, or by size

The word "split" hides three different jobs. Extracting one specific page (page 7 of a bank statement). Breaking a scanned book into chapter files (ranges). Slicing a huge PDF into email-friendly chunks (by size). All three modes are on this page because they share the same input but need very different logic.

Extract mode

The most common request: "I need page 5 as its own PDF." Click the page thumbnail, download. The extracted file keeps the original page's fonts, images, and orientation — it is a real single-page PDF, not a screenshot of one.

Range mode

Enter comma-separated ranges like 1-10, 15, 20-30 and each range becomes its own output file. Handy for splitting a 200-page textbook by chapter, or pulling out the three appendices of a report as separate deliverables. Ranges can overlap — page 15 can end up in two output files if you ask for 10-15, 15-20.

Size mode

Set a target like 10 MB and the tool packs pages sequentially until each chunk is just under the limit, then starts a new file. Useful for email attachments (Gmail's 25 MB limit historically, but with headers 20 MB is the practical cap) or for uploading to systems with per-file caps. Sizes are approximate — text-heavy PDFs compress differently than image-heavy ones, so a "10 MB target" might land at 8.5 or 10.8 MB for a given chunk.

Step-by-step

  1. Upload the PDF. Page thumbnails render locally.
  2. Pick mode: Extract, Range, or Size.
  3. Configure — click pages, type ranges, or enter a size cap.
  4. Click Split. Each output file is offered individually or as a single ZIP.

What splitting cannot do

It cannot break a page in half (half of page 1 into its own PDF). A page is the smallest addressable unit in the PDF spec. If you need to split a two-column layout into two files, export the page as an image, crop, and reimport with JPG to PDF — or re-typeset the source document.