About the PDF Splitter
This PDF splitter pulls specific pages or ranges out of a PDF and saves them as a new document, using a page specification like 1-3,5,8-9. It runs entirely in your browser using a JavaScript PDF library, so the source file is read, split and rebuilt locally without ever being uploaded to a server — useful for anything from pulling one signed page out of a long scanned bundle to trimming an unwanted cover sheet before filing a document.
How to use the PDF Splitter
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Upload the PDF you want to extract pages from.
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Type which pages to keep, using commas for individual pages and hyphens for ranges, for example 1-3,5,8-9.
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Check the 'Pages kept' figure against what you expected.
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Download the extracted PDF.
What people use it for
Pulling out a single form from a longer document
Extract just the pages of a signed form buried inside a larger scanned bundle, without needing to open the whole thing in a PDF editor.
Removing a cover page or blank pages
List every page except the ones you want gone, keeping only the content that matters for the final file.
Splitting a scanned batch into individual documents
Run the tool once per document boundary to break a bulk scan into separate files, one per invoice, form or letter.
How to write a page range
Pages and ranges are separated by commas, and a range uses a hyphen between the first and last page: 1-3,5,8-9 keeps pages 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9, dropping everything else. Page numbers count from 1, matching what any PDF reader displays in its page indicator, not from 0 as some programming contexts do. A single page and a range can be mixed freely in the same list, and pages can be listed in any order, which is also a simple way to reorder pages within one document.
What survives the extraction and what doesn't
Each extracted page keeps its original text, images, fonts and formatting exactly intact, since pages are copied as whole objects rather than rendered and rebuilt. What doesn't carry over is anything that lived at the document level rather than the page level: an outline or bookmark panel, document metadata such as the title set in file properties, and internal links that pointed at a page which may no longer be included.
Tips
- Check a PDF's total page count in a reader first if you're not certain how many pages it has — an out-of-range page number is rejected with a clear error.
- List pages out of numeric order, like 5,1-3, to extract and reorder in a single step.
- For splitting into several separate files rather than one extract, run the tool once per desired output file.