How it works

Also called unmerging a PDF — split any PDF into separate pages or extract exactly the pages you need. No upload, no signup, works instantly in your browser.

Split or unmerge a PDF in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Add your PDF

    Drop a PDF into the upload area or tap "Browse files" to choose from your device.

  2. 2

    Type the page range

    Enter pages and ranges like 1-3, 5, 7-9. Ranges are order-sensitive — type 5, 1, 3 to reorder pages in the output.

  3. 3

    Download the result

    Tap "Split PDF." The extracted pages become a new PDF, built locally and saved to your downloads.

Why split PDFs here?

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Private

Upload the whole document, extract a fragment — all locally. Nothing leaves your browser.

Instant

No upload, no queue. Page extraction happens in milliseconds at browser speed.

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Order-sensitive

Type 5, 1, 3 to get those pages in that order. Most PDF splitters can't do this.

Extract PDF pages without uploading

The most common reason to split a PDF is to share something specific — page 5 of a contract, the appendix of a report, the form section of a longer document — without sending the whole file. Doing that on a third-party server defeats the purpose: you've still uploaded the entire document.

This private PDF splitter reads your document into browser memory, extracts the pages you request using pdf-lib, and saves a new PDF to your downloads. The original is never modified. No upload step exists.

The range syntax is flexible: comma-separated pages and ranges, in any order. Reverse ranges work too — type 10-1 to reverse a 10-page document.

Combine the result with other PDFs using our PDF merger, or convert pages to images with PDF to JPG.

How to unmerge a PDF

If you previously combined several documents into one PDF and now need them back apart, this tool "unmerges" it by extracting each original section as its own file. Type the page range for the first document (for example 1-5), download it, then run the tool again with the range for the next section (for example 6-9) — repeat until every original document has been pulled back out.

This works the same whether you're unmerging a PDF you built yourself with our PDF merger, or one you received from someone else.

Looking to split a scanned book instead — where each page is a wide two-page spread? Use Split PDF in Half, which auto-detects the gutter and cuts every spread into single pages.

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