How to Split a PDF into Separate Pages or Extract a Range

Splitting a PDF is the opposite problem from merging one: instead of combining files, you need to pull a chapter, a single page, or a page range out of a larger document — without disturbing the rest of it.

When you actually need to split a PDF

Common cases: pulling one signed page out of a 40-page contract to email separately, breaking a scanned book into chapter-sized files, or extracting just the invoice page from a bundled statement. In each case the goal is the same — the extracted pages need to look exactly like they did in the original, just shorter.

How to split a PDF online

• Open the Split PDF tool.
• Upload the file and choose whether you want every page as its own file or a specific page range.
• Download the result — either a single trimmed PDF or a batch of individual pages, depending on what you selected.

Splitting vs. deleting pages

If you only want to remove a page or two and keep everything else as one document, that's a slightly different job — see the Delete PDF Pages tool instead. Splitting is for when you want the extracted pages to become their own file(s), not just disappear from the original.

Common mistakes

• Off-by-one page ranges: PDF viewers usually show page numbers starting at 1, but double-check against the actual page count before entering a range — it's easy to grab one page too many or too few.
• Splitting a scanned document with mixed orientation: if some pages were scanned sideways, split first, then use the Rotate PDF tool on the individual files rather than trying to fix orientation before splitting.

As with any page-level edit, open the result and check the first and last page of each split file before sending it anywhere.