How to Split a PDF Into Separate Pages

A 50-page PDF is useful for archiving, but not for sharing. When you only need to send pages 3-7, or when you need each page as its own file, splitting is the answer.

When to split a PDF

• Sharing specific sections — pull out the relevant pages from a long report instead of sending the entire document
• Email attachments — a 30 MB PDF will not fit in an email. Split it into smaller chunks that stay under the 25 MB limit
• Organizing documents — separate a multi-section document into individual files for each section
• Extracting forms — pull a single form out of a larger PDF package

How to split a PDF online

1. Upload your PDF — Click "Choose File" or drag and drop your PDF into the upload area.
2. Choose the split mode — Select "Extract all pages" to get every page as a separate file, or "Custom ranges" to specify exactly which pages you want.
3. Split and download — Click "Split PDF" and download your extracted pages as a ZIP file.

Using custom page ranges

The custom range input lets you specify exactly what you need:

• 1-5 — extracts pages 1 through 5
• 3, 7, 12 — extracts only pages 3, 7, and 12
• 1-3, 8-10 — extracts pages 1-3 and 8-10 as one combined PDF
• 5- — extracts from page 5 to the end

This is useful when you know exactly which pages contain the information you need.

Tips

• Preview the PDF first — scroll through and note which page numbers you need before splitting. This saves time compared to splitting and then checking each file.
• Merge after splitting — if you need pages from different parts of a document combined into one file, split out the pages you need, then merge them back together in the right order.
• Compress after splitting — if the resulting files are still too large, run them through a PDF compressor after splitting.