PDF Splitter
PDF Splitter
Extract selected pages from a PDF.
Runs entirely in your browser
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How to use this tool
- Fill in the inputs.
- Read the result.
- Copy or download as needed.
About the PDF Splitter
The PDF Splitter extracts a specific set of pages from a larger PDF document and saves them as a new, separate PDF file, without needing to touch or affect the original document. Upload a PDF, specify a page range like "1,3-5", and download a new file containing exactly those pages.
This is useful whenever you need to share, submit, or archive only a portion of a longer document — for example, pulling out a single relevant chapter, a signed signature page, or a specific set of records from a larger file.
After you upload a PDF, the tool reads its total page count and parses the page range you enter (accepting individual page numbers and hyphenated ranges, like "1,3-5") into a specific list of page indexes to extract. Using the pdf-lib library, it then creates a brand-new PDF document and copies just those requested pages from the original file into it, preserving their original formatting and content exactly.
The original uploaded file is never modified in any way — the tool only reads from it to build a separate, new output file containing your selected pages, which is then made available for download.
Common use cases
- Extracting a single chapter or section from a large report or e-book PDF.
- Pulling out just the signed signature page from a longer contract for record-keeping.
- Splitting a scanned batch of multiple documents (combined into one PDF) back into their individual files.
- Sharing only the relevant pages of a document rather than an entire lengthy file.
- Creating a smaller, page-specific PDF for a submission that only requires certain sections.
Tips and best practices
- Use a hyphen for consecutive page ranges (like "3-7") and commas to separate individual pages or ranges (like "1,3-5,10"), which can be combined freely in a single request.
- Check your document's total page count first if you are unsure of the exact range you need, since requesting an out-of-range page number will simply be ignored.
- The original PDF file you upload is never altered — the tool always produces a new, separate file containing only the pages you specified.
- For extracting many small, separate ranges from the same document repeatedly, running the tool once per range is the most straightforward approach.
