Three ways to split
- Extract page ranges into one PDF — type pages like
1-3, 5, 8-10and get a single PDF with just those pages, in that order. - Each range as its own PDF — every range you type becomes a separate download, handy for separating several documents scanned together.
- Every page as its own PDF — one file per page (up to 200 pages).
Why split a PDF?
Upload forms often ask for one document at a time. If your scanner produced one long PDF containing a birth certificate, a passport page and a utility bill, splitting it lets you attach each document under the right category. It also helps when a combined file is over a size limit: sending only the pages that are actually requested is often the simplest fix.
Quality and privacy
Pages are copied exactly as they are, so text, vector graphics and image quality are unchanged. The work is done by pdf-lib running in your browser; the PDF is never uploaded. When you close the tab, the copies held in memory are gone.
Tips
Page numbers refer to the physical order of pages in the file, starting at 1, not to numbers printed on the pages. If you need to put pages from different files together afterwards, use Merge PDF. To turn a page into an image instead, use PDF to JPG.
Questions
- Does splitting reduce quality?
- No. Pages are copied, not re-rendered.
- Can I reorder pages?
- Yes. Ranges are added in the order you type them, so 5, 1-4 puts page 5 first.
- Is there a page limit?
- Saving every page separately is limited to 200 pages to keep downloads manageable. Range extraction has no fixed limit.