Split PDF Online Free: Separate, Extract and Remove Pages

Yes, completely. There is no sign-up, no watermark, no daily limit and no paid version. Splitting runs in your own browser, so there are no server costs to pass on to you.

No. Open the page, add your PDF and download the new files. Nothing to register, nothing to install.

Drop your PDF onto the upload box, or click Choose PDF file. Pick a way to split it, such as Cut by hand or Page ranges. The page previews show a cut line wherever a new file begins and a label saying which file each page goes into. Press Split, then download each file, or all of them at once as a ZIP.

Yes. It works on Android phones, iPhones and tablets, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux computers. On a phone, tap the space between two pages to cut there, and tap a page to select it in Pick pages.

Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox. If something doesn't work, update your browser first; very old browsers can't run the PDF engine.

There is no fixed limit. Because the work happens on your device, very large files depend on how much memory your device has. PDFs with hundreds of pages split in a few seconds on a typical computer.

Yes. Your last 30 splits are listed under Your recent splits, below the tool. When a split made several PDFs, they're saved together as one ZIP. Click Download next to any of them, even after closing and reopening the page, as long as you use the same browser on the same device.

You need a connection to load the page and its PDF engine. After that, your PDF is opened and split on your device and is never sent over the connection.

A PDF splitter is a tool that divides one PDF document into two or more separate PDF files. Each new file contains a chosen set of pages from the original, which stays unchanged. This one runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

Splitting divides a PDF into several files. Extracting copies chosen pages into one new PDF. Removing makes a new PDF without the pages you select. This tool does all three: use Page ranges or Every N pages to split, and Pick pages to extract or remove.

No. The original file is only read, never edited or replaced. Every result is a new PDF, so you can split the same file again in a different way at any time.

Split PDF is made by Entertainment Couch as part of its free online tools. It's built on open-source PDF software: pdf.js from Mozilla, which shows the page previews, and pdf-lib, which creates the new files.

There are six. Cut by hand: click between pages to cut. Page ranges: type ranges such as 1-3, 4-9. Every N pages: equal-sized files. Pick pages: choose pages to extract or remove. By file size: keep each file under a size you set. By bookmarks: one file per chapter, shown only when your PDF has bookmarks.

Choose Pick pages, click the pages you want (or type them, like 2, 5-8), and keep One PDF selected. Press Create PDF and you get a single new PDF with just those pages, in page order.

Choose Every N pages and set it to 1. Or choose Cut by hand and press Cut after every page. Either way, each page becomes its own PDF, and you can download them all in one ZIP.

Separate files with commas: 1-3, 4, 9-12 makes three PDFs. 10- means page 10 to the end, -5 means the first five pages, and you can write end for the last page, as in 7-end. Writing a range backwards, like 5-1, puts those pages in reverse order. Tick Put all ranges in one PDF to combine them into a single file instead.

Choose Pick pages, select the pages you don't want, then choose Remove these. You get one PDF with every other page kept, in the original order.

Choose Cut by hand and press Cut in half. The first file gets the extra page when the page count is odd. You can then move the cut by clicking a different gap.

Enter a maximum size in MB, such as 5 for an email attachment limit. The tool measures the pages and fills each new file with as many pages as fit under that size. If a single page is bigger than the limit on its own, it gets a file to itself and is marked as over the limit.

If your PDF has bookmarks (a table of contents in the sidebar of most PDF readers), the tool starts a new file at each chapter and names the file after the bookmark. Choose Chapters and sections to cut at second-level bookmarks too. If the first bookmark isn't on page 1, the pages before it become a file called Opening pages.

Yes. In Pick pages, press Odd or Even to select them, then choose One PDF to get all odd or all even pages in one file, or Remove these to drop them.

Yes. Use the rotate button under any page, or Rotate all above the pages. The rotation is saved in the new PDFs. Your original file is never changed.

One PDF at a time. When you're done, press Split another PDF. Your earlier results stay under Your recent splits, so you don't lose them.

By default, each file is named after your PDF and the pages it holds, such as report_pages_1-3.pdf. Files split by bookmarks are numbered and named after the chapter. Under File names you can set your own pattern using {name}, {n}, {pages} and {title}.

No. Your PDF is opened and split entirely inside your browser, on your own device. The page downloads its PDF engine from public code libraries, but your document is never sent anywhere.

No. The splitter has no server to keep anything on. Your results are listed under Your recent splits, but that list is stored only in your own browser on your device. Nobody else can see it.

Click the × next to any item under Your recent splits to remove it, or Clear history to remove everything. Clearing your browser's site data also removes it. Private or incognito windows may not save history at all.

No. Pages are copied exactly as they are, not re-printed or re-compressed, so text stays sharp and selectable and images keep their original quality.

Fonts and images that several pages share are stored once in the original. When pages go into different files, each file needs its own copy of anything its pages use, so the parts can add up to more than the whole.

Web links on a page usually keep working. Bookmarks from the original aren't copied into the new files, links that jump to pages in another part won't work, and fillable form fields may stop being fillable.

Yes. Scanned pages are split like any other page. If you need the text from a scan, use our free PDF to Word converter, which reads scanned pages with OCR.

Encrypted PDFs can't be split here. Open the PDF in a reader where you know the password, print it to a new PDF (choose Save as PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer), then add the new file.

The file has errors the PDF engine can't read past. Open it in a PDF reader or browser and save or print it to a new PDF, then add that file. If it won't open anywhere, the file itself is broken.

Previews are drawn as you scroll, starting with the pages on screen, so very large or image-heavy PDFs take a moment. You don't need to wait for them: splitting works even before every preview has appeared.

Safari may open a single PDF in a new tab instead of saving it. Tap the Share button, then Save to Files. ZIP files are saved to Downloads in the Files app, where you can tap them to unpack.

The message says which part needs fixing. Check that every page number exists in your PDF, that ranges use a hyphen such as 3-7, and that separate files are divided by commas.

In Pick pages, click one page, then hold Shift and click another to select every page in between. You can also type a list like 1-10, 15, 20-end into the box above the pages.

Click any page (outside Pick pages) to see it larger. Use the arrows or your keyboard's left and right keys to move through pages. The page sizes control above the previews makes them smaller or larger.