Splits a PDF into separate files. Take every page as its own document, or pull out one section as a single new PDF. Pages are copied rather than redrawn, so nothing is lost, and the work happens in this tab.
Two different jobs
report-01.pdf, not report-1.pdf.
One file containing the selected pages is extraction: pages 12 to 18 come out as a single new document, in that order. This is what you want when you need to send one chapter, one invoice or one signed page rather than the whole file.
Both accept a page range, so you can burst apart only part of a document.
Nothing is re-encoded
This matters because the obvious way to build these tools — render each page to an image and make a new PDF out of the pictures — is much easier and produces a visibly worse file: fuzzy text, no selection, no search, and often ten times the size. Nothing here does that.
The result is that a page which has been through this tool is byte-for-byte as good as it was in the file you started with.
What travels with a page, and what does not
Some things belong to the document rather than to any page. Form fields, the outline (bookmarks) sidebar, document-level JavaScript and attachments live at that level, and rebuilding a document from pages does not bring them along. Where the source has any of them, this is said explicitly in the result rather than discovered later.
Annotations — links, comments, highlights — travel with the page they sit on. A link that pointed at a page you removed will still be there, but it will no longer lead anywhere.
Getting the pages you meant
4 for one page, 2-6 for a run, 1,3,8 for a list, 10- for everything from ten onwards. They can be combined: 1,4-6,20-.
A page number that does not exist is an error rather than a silent skip, because asking for 1-500 of a ten-page document almost always means you have the wrong file open.
Other names for this
Also searched as “extract pdf pages”, “separate pdf”, “split pdf pages”, “pdf splitter”.
Questions
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. The work happens in this tab. Turn your Wi-Fi off before you start and it still works — which is the only demonstration worth anything.
- How do I extract just one page?
- Choose “one file containing the selected pages” and put the page number in the Pages box. You get a single-page PDF named after the original.
- Do I get a ZIP?
- When the split produces more than one file, yes — with every page also listed individually so you can take just the one you need without unzipping.
- Is there a limit on how many files or pages?
- Only your device’s memory. There is no server here to run out of capacity, no queue to join and no daily count, because there is nothing on our side that any of those would be protecting.
- Is the split page lower quality than the original?
- No. It is the same page object, copied. Nothing is rendered, resampled or recompressed.