Visual page selection, smart range input, multiple export modes, and full-page previews — the most capable browser-based PDF splitter available.
Every page in your PDF renders as a visual thumbnail so you can see exactly what you're selecting. No guessing by page numbers — browse the actual page content visually. Double-click any page to open a full-size preview with navigation controls.
Click individual pages to select or deselect them. Hold Shift and click to select an entire range of pages at once, just like selecting files in a folder. A green checkmark and highlight clearly marks every selected page.
Type precise page ranges like "1-3, 5, 8-12, 20" for instant selection. Supports individual pages, ranges with dashes, and comma-separated combinations. Perfect for splitting large documents where clicking each page would be tedious.
One-click buttons for common selections: All, None, Odd pages only, Even pages only, Invert current selection, First Half, or Second Half. Chain these together — select all, then invert to deselect all, or pick odd pages then invert to get even pages.
Extract Selected creates a single PDF with only the chosen pages. Remove Selected creates a PDF with the selected pages removed. Burst Pages downloads each selected page as a separate individual PDF file — ideal for splitting chapters or sections.
Your PDF never leaves your device. Thumbnail rendering and page extraction both happen entirely in your browser. No files uploaded, no server processing, no data stored. Safe for confidential legal, financial, medical, and personal documents.
Professionals across law, business, education, and personal use rely on our PDF splitter to extract exactly the pages they need.
Extract specific exhibits from lengthy contract packages, separate signature pages for independent filing, pull relevant sections from court documents, or remove privileged pages before sharing discovery materials with opposing counsel.
Pull specific pages from financial reports for presentations, extract individual invoices from consolidated billing PDFs, separate quarterly results from annual reports, or remove internal notes before sharing documents externally.
Extract specific chapters from textbooks, pull individual problem sets from course packets, separate graded assignments for portfolio building, or split journal articles from compiled research collections for focused study.
Extract specific pages from scanned document batches, separate individual forms from government PDF packages, pull relevant pages from insurance documents, or remove blank or unwanted pages from multi-page scans.
Upload your PDF by dragging it into the drop zone or clicking to browse. The tool renders visual thumbnails of every page. Click individual pages to select them, use Shift+click for range selection, or type page ranges in the input field. Choose your export mode (Extract, Remove, or Burst) and click download. The result is generated instantly in your browser.
Extract Selected creates a new PDF containing only your selected pages in order. Remove Selected creates a new PDF with everything except the selected pages — useful for deleting unwanted pages. Burst Pages downloads each selected page as its own individual PDF file, which is ideal for splitting a document into separate chapters, sections, or individual forms.
No. Your file never leaves your device. Thumbnail rendering uses pdf.js running locally in your browser, and page extraction uses pdf-lib, also running locally. There is zero server communication at any stage — your document remains completely private and secure on your own device.
Type page numbers and ranges separated by commas. For example: "1-3, 5, 8-12, 20" selects pages 1 through 3, page 5, pages 8 through 12, and page 20. Press Enter or click Apply to select those pages. Ranges can go in either direction — "12-8" works the same as "8-12".
Click the first page in the range to select it, then hold Shift and click the last page — all pages between them will be selected. You can also combine Shift+click with the Quick Select buttons. For example, select odd pages first, then Shift+click to add a specific additional range.
Yes! Double-click any page thumbnail to open a full-size preview. The preview modal includes navigation arrows to browse through pages, and a select/deselect button so you can refine your selection while previewing. This is especially useful for large documents where thumbnails may be too small to read text.
Yes. Pages are copied as complete PDF objects — all text, images, fonts, vector graphics, annotations, and formatting are preserved exactly as they exist in the original. The split operation does not re-render or recompress any content, ensuring pixel-perfect fidelity to the source document.
There are no artificial limits. The tool handles PDFs of any size your device can process in memory. Modern devices comfortably handle PDFs with hundreds of pages. For very large PDFs (thousands of pages), thumbnail rendering may take a moment but the split operation itself remains fast. The tool is fully functional even while thumbnails are still loading.
Yes! The tool is completely free for personal, commercial, and professional use with no restrictions. Split client documents, legal filings, financial reports, or any other content. There are no hidden fees, premium tiers, watermarks, or usage limits.
PDF splitting is a fundamental document management operation that enables you to extract, isolate, and reorganize content from multi-page PDF files. Whether you need to pull a single page from a long report, extract a chapter from a textbook, remove unnecessary pages from a scanned document, or break a consolidated file into individual components, a capable PDF splitter transforms what would otherwise be a tedious manual process into a quick, precise operation.
Most PDF splitting tools rely on typing page numbers into an input field, requiring you to already know which pages contain the content you want. This is workable for well-organized documents with clear page numbering, but becomes frustrating for scanned documents, image-heavy files, or PDFs without consistent page numbers. Visual thumbnail rendering solves this by showing you the actual content of every page in a browsable grid.
With visual selection, you can quickly scan through a document and identify exactly the pages you need based on their visual content rather than memorized page numbers. This is particularly valuable for documents like scanned receipts, image galleries, presentation exports, and mixed-content files where page numbers alone are insufficient to identify specific content. The combination of visual thumbnails, click selection, and full-page preview creates an intuitive workflow that matches how people naturally think about document pages.
When pages are extracted from a PDF, the operation copies complete page objects from the source document into a new document. A PDF page object is a self-contained unit that includes all rendering instructions — text positions and embedded fonts, image data, vector paths, color definitions, annotations, and form fields. By copying these objects intact, the extraction preserves every detail of the original page with complete fidelity, and the original document remains completely unchanged.
This copy-based approach means the extracted PDF contains everything needed to render the selected pages identically to the original. Fonts that were embedded in the source document remain embedded in the extracted pages. Images retain their original resolution and compression. Vector graphics, annotations, and interactive elements all transfer without loss. The extracted file is a fully independent PDF that can be viewed, printed, and shared without any dependency on the original source file.
In legal practice, PDF splitting is an everyday necessity. Law firms regularly receive consolidated document packages that contain multiple exhibits, attachments, and appendices that need to be separated for independent filing, review, or distribution. A contract package might include the main agreement, several exhibits, a disclosure schedule, and signature pages — each of which may need to be extracted as a standalone document for different purposes. The ability to visually identify and precisely select pages eliminates errors that can occur when working with page numbers in complex documents.
Financial professionals frequently split PDF reports to extract specific sections for different audiences. A comprehensive quarterly report might need to be divided so that the executive summary goes to the board, the detailed financials go to auditors, and the operational metrics go to department heads. Rather than distributing the entire document to everyone, splitting creates appropriately scoped documents for each recipient, improving both efficiency and information security.
Students and researchers regularly need to extract specific chapters, articles, or sections from larger PDF documents. A textbook purchased as a single PDF might need to be split into individual chapter files for organized study. A collection of research papers compiled into one PDF may need to be separated back into individual articles for citation management. Course packets, conference proceedings, and anthology volumes all benefit from page-level extraction into focused, manageable documents.
The three export modes serve fundamentally different workflow needs. Extract Selected is the most common operation — you identify the pages you want and create a new PDF containing only those pages. This is ideal for pulling specific content from a larger document: extracting a chapter, isolating a few pages of data, or creating a subset of a longer report.
Remove Selected is the inverse operation — instead of specifying what you want to keep, you specify what you want to discard. This is more intuitive when you have a document that is mostly good but has a few unwanted pages: blank pages from a scan, cover pages you do not need, or sections that should not be included when sharing. Rather than selecting dozens of pages to keep, you select the few pages to remove, which is faster and less error-prone.
Burst Pages is a specialized mode that creates individual single-page PDF files from each selected page. This is powerful for workflows that require page-level granularity: separating a batch of scanned forms into individual records, breaking a consolidated invoice PDF into individual invoices for different filing categories, or splitting a presentation export into individual slide files for selective inclusion in other documents.
Documents that need splitting often contain sensitive, confidential, or privileged information. Legal filings, financial records, medical documents, personnel files, and proprietary business materials all require careful handling. Cloud-based splitting services require uploading these documents to third-party servers, creating a chain of trust that extends to the service provider's infrastructure, employees, and data retention policies.
Browser-based splitting with client-side processing eliminates this risk entirely. Your document is read into your browser's local memory, processed locally, and the result is generated locally — no network communication occurs at any point. This approach provides the strongest possible confidentiality guarantee: since the data never leaves your device, there is zero possibility of interception, unauthorized access, or compliance violations related to third-party data handling. For professionals bound by confidentiality obligations — attorneys, healthcare workers, financial advisors, and corporate officers — this distinction is not merely convenient but essential.