Most PDFs arrive as one file when you only need part of it. A 40-page report where you need pages 5 to 12. A combined form where each section needs to go to a different person. A scanned book where you want to extract one chapter. Splitting a PDF by pages lets you get exactly what you need without sharing or uploading the entire document.
This tool handles two common scenarios: splitting every page into separate files, and extracting a specific range of pages into a new PDF. Both produce clean output with no watermarks and no quality loss — the extracted pages are identical to the originals.
Splitting is also useful before compression. If you have a 50-page document and only need to compress specific pages that have heavy images, split those pages out first, compress them, then merge everything back together. This gives you more control over quality than compressing the entire document at once.
After splitting, you may want to combine specific pages in a different order. Use our Merge PDF tool to recombine pages however you need. If the extracted pages are still too large, use Compress PDF Without Losing Quality to reduce the size before sharing. For school submissions requiring specific pages only, see Merge PDF for School.
Yes. Enter the page range you want to extract — for example pages 3 to 7 — and the tool creates a new PDF containing only those pages.
No. Splitting only separates pages — it does not re-compress or modify the content in any way. The extracted pages are identical in quality to the originals.
Yes. Select the option to split every page and the tool produces one PDF file per page, each downloadable separately or as a ZIP.