TL;DR: Upload a PDF, type the page range you want (e.g. 1-3, 5, 7-end), and download the extracted pages as a new PDF.
Split PDF online for free — divide a PDF into separate files by page range. Extract specific pages or split every page into individual PDFs. No installation, no registration required. Privacy-first: files are never stored on our servers.
Using Split PDF doesn't require an account, an email address, or a paid plan. Your file is held in isolated temporary storage only for the duration of processing, then permanently unlinked. No watermarks, no upsells, no behavioural tracking.
Split PDF online for free — divide a PDF into separate files by page range. Extract specific pages or split every page into individual PDFs. No installation, no registration required. Privacy-first: files are never stored on our servers. Use it when you need a quick, private, no-account way to handle a pdf in the browser, or when you want an auditable open-source alternative to iLovePDF, Smallpdf, Adobe Acrobat, PDF24, and Sejda. The page at /tool/split-pdf is designed for one clear job: upload or provide the input, choose only the options that matter, and download the result without creating an account or passing through a sales funnel.
PDF operations that need server-side libraries run inside the PrivaTools container and return a fresh download; browser-only PDF helpers stay on-device. Temporary input and output files are not used for analytics, model training, advertising profiles, or product telemetry. The public demo uses anonymous page-view analytics only; file bytes, extracted text, filenames, passwords, signatures, and generated results are outside that analytics path. If your organization needs stricter controls, you can self-host all 214 PrivaTools utilities and keep processing on your own infrastructure.
Before running Split PDF, confirm that the source file opens correctly and that you have permission to process it. Keep an untouched original, run one operation at a time when quality matters, and use Pipeline when you want repeatable multi-step output. For sensitive material, review the downloaded result before sharing it. For large files, give the browser time to finish the download and avoid refreshing the page mid-run. If a password, damaged upload, unsupported codec, or malformed document blocks processing, PrivaTools returns a plain-language error so you can pick the next recovery step instead of guessing.
Split PDF is intentionally narrow: it does one pdf task and hands the result back as a normal download. That makes the output easy to inspect, rename, archive, attach to email, or feed into another tool. If you need a repeatable workflow, save the page, bookmark a Pipeline recipe, or self-host the API so the same steps can run from internal scripts. The interface avoids accounts and cloud folders on purpose: the safest default for private files is to process only the current request, return the result, and leave long-term storage under your control.
Split PDF runs in any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS — there is nothing to install, no extension to add, and no desktop app to keep updated. Because the interface is a single page, you can bookmark it, send the link to a colleague, or open it on a phone and get the same result you would on a laptop. There are no watermarks stamped onto your output, no sign-in wall before the download, and no paid tier that unlocks the “real” version later — the Split PDF you see is the complete tool. For teams that would rather keep everything in-house, the same endpoint ships in the MIT-licensed, self-hostable build, so you can run it behind your own firewall with identical behaviour and no outbound calls. That combination — instant in the browser for individuals, fully self-hostable for organizations — is what keeps a private file genuinely private from upload to download.
Yes — pick the 'Extract every page' option to get every page as a separate PDF file, all packaged into a ZIP download. There is no cap on the number of pages.
Yes. Switch to 'Custom ranges' and enter exact page numbers or ranges: e.g. `1, 5, 12` or `1-3, 12-15`. Each range becomes a separate PDF in the output ZIP.
Bookmarks inside the extracted page range are preserved with adjusted page numbers. Bookmarks pointing outside the range are dropped. Internal hyperlinks to pages outside the range are removed; external hyperlinks are kept intact.
No. The split is non-destructive — the original is read, the output is written to a fresh file, and the input file is deleted from the server within minutes of the response. Your original on your device is untouched.
It is uploaded to PrivaTools' own isolated container for processing, held in temporary per-request storage, then unlinked immediately. It is never kept in permanent storage, never inspected, never shared with any third party. The split logic is open source on GitHub for verification.
Split lets you pick page ranges manually. Split by Size keeps each chunk under a target file size (e.g. 10 MB for email). Split by Bookmarks auto-splits at every chapter using the PDF's existing outline tree.
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