Split PDF

Quick answer

Split PDF is free and runs entirely in your web browser at https://aimstudio.co.in/freetools/split-pdf — your file is processed on your own device and is never uploaded to a server. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no file-size cap imposed by us; the practical limit is your device's memory. It works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

Split a PDF file into individual pages, custom page ranges, or selected pages instantly completely offline in your browser.

Three ways to split, and when each is right

Extracting a page range gives you one new document containing the pages you named — the right choice when you need to send chapter four to someone without the other ninety pages.

Splitting into single pages produces one file per page, which is what scanning workflows usually want when each page is a separate receipt or form.

Splitting at intervals cuts every N pages, useful when a scanner has produced one long file from a stack of identical two-page documents.

Page numbers here mean physical pages

A range of 5 to 9 means the fifth through ninth sheets of the file, counting from one. It does not mean the numbers printed on the pages. A document with roman-numeral front matter will have a printed "page 1" sitting at physical page 9, and the split uses the physical position.

Open the file first and note the position in your PDF reader's page counter rather than the number printed in the footer — that counter is showing the same physical index this tool uses.

Quality is untouched

Splitting copies page objects between documents rather than re-rendering them. There is no re-compression, so an extracted page is byte-for-byte as sharp as it was in the original — text stays vector, images keep their original encoding.

File size will not divide evenly. A PDF stores shared resources like fonts once and references them from every page, so each split file carries its own copy of the fonts it needs. Ten single pages can total more than the original.

This tool runs entirely inside your browser. The file you select is read into local memory, processed on your own device, and never sent to a server.

Available free in the United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia and across the EU. Because files are processed in your own browser and never uploaded, no personal data crosses a border, which keeps use consistent with UK GDPR, EU GDPR and CCPA/CPRA expectations.

Frequently asked questions

Are my PDF documents uploaded to an external server?

No. All PDF page parsing and extraction operations occur 100% locally inside your web browser memory using pdf-lib.

Can I split a PDF into custom page ranges like 1-3, 5, 8-10?

Yes! You can specify exact comma-separated page numbers or dash-separated ranges to extract into a single clean PDF.

Can I extract every page into a separate PDF file?

Yes, select "All Pages Single" mode to generate individual PDF documents for every single page, downloadable as a ZIP archive.