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Split a PDF

Take the pages you need out of a PDF, or cut it into several smaller PDFs.

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Copy link includes the inputs you choose to share in the address. Anyone with that link can reopen them. Files and generated results are excluded. Password and key tools share settings only.

Language: English

Or drop it here. It is read on this device and never uploaded.

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Write pages like 1-3, 5, 8-. A range that ends in a dash runs to the last page.

Your new PDFs

The new files appear here.

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Sharing and starting over

A copied link includes what you entered and your settings, so anyone with it can see them. Leave private text out. Files and results are not included; random draws are made again.

Start over puts the tool back to its starting values and closes any open file or device. Drafts you saved stay on this device until you delete them.

How to split a PDF

Choose the PDF, then how to split it: take some pages into one new file, make one file for each range you type, cut it every few pages, or save every page as its own PDF. Write pages like 1-3, 5, 8-; a range that ends in a dash runs to the last page.

Each new PDF keeps its pages exactly as they were, with their text, pictures and size. Several files come as separate downloads or together in one ZIP file.

Next: Merge PDF

Worked example

Splitting a 10-page report with the ranges 1-3, 4-10 gives two PDFs: report-1-3.pdf with 3 pages and report-4-10.pdf with 7. Cutting it every 4 pages gives three files of 4, 4 and 2 pages.

Before you rely on the result

One PDF of up to 200 MB at a time, and up to 500 new files. A PDF locked with a password has to be unlocked first. Bookmarks are not carried into the new files. Nothing is uploaded.

Next: Rotate PDF

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