Split PDF — Free Online Tool

Splitting a PDF is the inverse of merging, and equally common in real-world document workflows. A scanned contract bundle often contains five distinct documents that were stuffed through a single scanner pass. A multi-month statement archive needs to be broken into a file per month before upload to accounting software. A research paper compilation needs each paper extracted before circulation. Our split tool offers four modes: extract a single range like pages 5-12, extract multiple ranges in one pass (5-12, 15, 20-25), split at fixed intervals (every 10 pages), or explode the file into one-PDF-per-page for maximum flexibility. The visual page picker shows thumbnails of every page, so you can confirm exactly what you are pulling out before you commit. The underlying pdf-lib pipeline does page-level extraction without re-encoding, which means embedded fonts and images survive unchanged and any extracted bookmark sub-trees come along with their target pages. Form fields contained entirely within an extracted range remain fillable. Compared to splitting in desktop Acrobat — which forces you to set up Preflight profiles — the workflow here takes under thirty seconds for most documents and produces a zip of all output files when you ask for multiple extractions at once.