Split PDF
Drop a PDF and choose how to split it — every page into its own file, every N pages, or at breakpoints you pick. All in your browser.
Drop a PDF here or click to browse
Split on your device — never uploaded
Splitting produces several files from one, which is a different job from extracting a range into a single file. Use this when you need each chapter, each invoice or each scanned document as a separate PDF. Like every page operation here, it is lossless — pages are copied, not re-rendered — and it runs on your machine.
Features
- Split every page into its own file
- Split every N pages into equal chunks
- Split at custom breakpoints — after pages 3, 7, 12
- Preview of exactly which files you will get, before you commit
- Lossless page copying
- Client-side only
How to use the Split PDF
- Drop your PDF.
- Choose a split mode.
- Read the preview — it lists every file that will be produced.
- Split and download. Your browser may ask permission for multiple downloads.
Why use this tool
Because a 40-page scan of forty separate documents is forty problems, and splitting it by hand in a PDF reader is twenty minutes of clicking.
Frequently asked questions
Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?
No. The file is read with FileReader, processed by pdf-lib inside your browser tab, and written back out as a download. There are no network requests. You can verify this yourself: open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab, and run the tool — you will see the library load once from a CDN and nothing else. This matters because the documents people organise are bank statements, ID scans and signed contracts.
Why does my browser ask permission to download multiple files?
Because splitting produces one download per output file, and browsers guard against sites that trigger many downloads at once. Click allow. This is a browser security prompt, not an error, and it is the direct consequence of the files being generated locally rather than zipped on a server.
Will this reduce the quality of my PDF?
No. Pages are copied wholesale from the source document into the new one — the content streams are not decoded or re-encoded. Text stays selectable, images stay at their original resolution, and vector graphics stay vector. What goes in comes out identical.
Why is each split file almost as large as the original?
PDFs share resources — fonts, embedded images, colour profiles — across pages. When a page is extracted, the resources it references come with it, and if a font is used on every page then every output file carries it. This is normal and does not indicate a problem.
Can I use a password-protected PDF?
Not directly — encrypted content streams cannot be copied without the key. Remove the password first using the Remove PDF Password tool, then run this one. That tool also runs entirely in your browser, so the password never leaves your machine either.