Split PDF — extract pages without uploading

Splitting is usually about extracting something sensitive from something larger — three pages of a bank statement for a landlord, one signed page out of a contract, a single invoice from a year-end bundle. Uploading the entire document to a website in order to pull out three pages means handing over everything you were trying not to share, including all the pages you had no intention of sending anyone.

Here the whole document stays on your machine. Page extraction runs inside a Web Worker in your browser, the site is static with no backend to receive a file, and a Content-Security-Policy blocks third-party requests. You can load the page, go offline, and still split — which is the clearest possible demonstration that nothing was being sent.

Drop a PDF and you get a visual preview of every page, so you are selecting from what you can see rather than guessing at page numbers. Click pages directly to select them, or type ranges if you already know what you need:

• 1-3, 5, 8-10 — individual pages and ranges, comma-separated.
• 9- — page 9 through to the end, without needing to know the page count.

There are two ways to treat those groups. By default each comma-separated group becomes its own PDF, which is what you want when you are breaking one bundle into several documents. Flip the toggle and every selected page is collected into a single PDF instead — the right choice when you are pulling scattered pages out into one file.

Choose Every page separately and each page becomes its own single-page PDF. A 40-page scan becomes 40 files, packed into one ZIP so you get a single download rather than forty prompts. The ZIP is built on your device as well — it is not assembled anywhere else and then sent back.

This is the usual approach for bursting a batch of scanned documents that were fed through a sheet scanner in one pass, where every page is really a separate record. If instead you want the pages as pictures rather than PDFs, use PDF to images, which exports PNG or JPEG at a resolution you choose.

A password-protected PDF cannot be split until the password is removed — encrypted files are detected and flagged rather than producing a confusing failure. Use Unlock PDF first on a document you own, then come back.

Extraction keeps the real page content intact: text stays selectable and searchable in the output, and vector artwork stays sharp, because pages are copied rather than re-rendered into images. That also means an extracted page is roughly as large as it was inside the original — if the result needs to be smaller, Compress PDF handles that on your device too.

Putting pages back together instead? Merge PDF combines files in whatever order you drag them into.