Split PDF
Upload a PDF to split into individual pages.
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Max 20 MB total
About splitting PDF files
Splitting takes one PDF and returns its pages as separate documents, delivered together in a ZIP archive. Like merging, it is a copy operation rather than a conversion — each extracted page carries over its original text layer, fonts and image data, so a page pulled out of a 200-page report is indistinguishable from that page in the original.
The usual reason to split is that a document has outgrown its audience. Board packs, scanned contract bundles and multi-chapter manuals are often circulated whole when the recipient needs three pages. Splitting first also makes selective merging possible: extract the pages you care about, discard the rest, and recombine what is left.
How to split a PDF
- 1Upload the PDF you want to break apart.
- 2Confirm the split point if the tool offers one, or split into individual pages.
- 3Start processing — larger documents take proportionally longer.
- 4Download the ZIP archive and extract it to get the individual PDFs.
Limits and technical details
- Accepts a single .pdf file up to 50 MB
- Output is a .zip archive containing the resulting PDFs
- Page content is copied without re-encoding
- Each output page keeps the source page's dimensions and orientation
Frequently asked questions
- Why is the output a ZIP file instead of a PDF?
- Splitting produces more than one file, and a browser download can only deliver one. Packaging them into a ZIP keeps the set together and preserves the page numbering in the filenames. Every operating system can open a ZIP without extra software.
- Do the split pages take up more space than the original?
- Usually a little, yes. Resources shared across pages — an embedded font, a repeated logo — have to be duplicated into each standalone file rather than stored once. A document that leans heavily on shared assets can expand noticeably once split.
- Can I split a password-protected PDF?
- No. Encrypted PDFs have to be unlocked before their page structure can be read. Remove the password in your PDF reader first, then upload the unprotected copy.
- What happens to a scanned PDF with no text layer?
- It splits normally — each page becomes its own PDF containing the same scanned image. Splitting does not add text recognition, so the output remains non-searchable if the input was.