Split PDF
Extract the pages you need, or split every page into its own PDF.
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How to split a PDF
- Drop one PDF onto the box above, or click it to browse. This tool works on a single file at a time — adding another simply replaces it.
- Type the pages you want into Pages to extract. Single numbers, ranges and a mixture of the two all work: 1-3, 5, 8 keeps five pages.
- Alternatively, tick Split every page into a separate PDF. That greys out the pages box and turns every page into a file of its own.
- Press Split PDF. A selection arrives as one document ending in -extracted.pdf; splitting every page arrives as a ZIP holding -page-1.pdf, -page-2.pdf and so on.
What people use it for
Most splitting is about sending someone the part that concerns them, rather than the whole bundle they would have to hunt through:
- Lifting the two pages of a contract that actually need signing out of a long annexed agreement.
- Sending each client only their own invoice from a batch that printed as one continuous PDF.
- Separating a stack fed through the scanner in one pass back into the individual documents it contained.
- Pulling a single certificate or ID page out of a personal archive to attach to an application.
- Breaking a long manual into chapters so colleagues can work on sections in parallel.
Good to know
Page numbers are counted from 1 and refer to positions in the file, not to any number printed on the paper. Anything outside the document is quietly ignored, a page listed twice is only taken once, and a range typed backwards (8-5) is read the same as 5-8. The extracted pages appear in the order you typed them, so 5, 1-2 really does put page 5 first. If nothing usable is recognised, the status line says so and tells you how many pages the file actually has.
Extracted pages keep their original content, size and selectable text, but document-level extras such as bookmarks, form fields and internal links may not follow them into the new file. Splitting every page of a very long document is the heaviest thing this tool does: each page becomes a separate PDF in memory before the ZIP is built, which can be slow on a phone. Nothing is compressed along the way, so a handful of image-rich pages can still be large — Compress PDF is the follow-up for that.
Your file stays with you. The PDF is opened by code running inside this tab, the new documents are built in your device's memory, and the download comes from that memory — at no point is anything transmitted to EditZap or anyone else, which is not something most online splitters can say.
Questions people ask
Does splitting change my original PDF?
No. The file on your disk is read and left exactly as it was; everything you get back is a new document. If a selection comes out wrong, just change the page numbers and press the button again.
Can I produce several ranges as separate files in one go?
Not in a single pass — the pages box produces one document. Either run the tool once per range, or split every page and reassemble the groups you want with Merge PDF.
Why is my extracted file almost as big as the original?
Fonts and images embedded in a PDF are often shared across the whole document, and the pages you keep bring their share with them. Scanned pages in particular carry their full image data.
What if I want to keep most of the document and lose a few pages?
Listing dozens of pages to extract is tedious. Delete Pages takes the same range syntax but works the other way round: name the pages to remove and everything else is kept in its original order.