About this tool
Most splitting is really extraction. A bank statement runs forty pages and the office wants three of them. A scanned booklet has your certificate on page seven. Rather than printing and rescanning, you type the pages you want and get a new PDF holding exactly those.
The page box takes a short expression: single numbers, ranges with a hyphen,
separated by commas. 1-3,5,7 is five pages. An empty box means the whole
document, which is useful when you only want to reorder. Order is honoured
as written, so 3,1 really does put page 3 first — handy when a scanner fed
sheets in the wrong sequence and you want them straightened out in one pass.
Deleting pages works by inversion. There is no delete field, so to drop page
4 of a ten-page file you ask for 1-3,5-10. The result is the same document
minus the page you left out, and the original file on your device is
untouched, so a mistake costs you nothing but another run.
The pages themselves are copied, not re-rendered. Text stays selectable and scans keep their resolution, which is what you want when the document has to stay readable at the other end. It also means the new file carries the fonts and images those pages use, so a short extract from a heavy scan can still be several megabytes. All of it happens in your browser: the PDF is never uploaded, and there is no copy of your statement on anyone’s server.
How to use this tool
- Choose your PDF. Pick one PDF from your phone or computer, or drag it onto the box. Files up to 50 MB are fine.
- Type the pages to extract. Use page numbers and ranges separated by commas: 1-3,5,7 means pages one, two, three, five and seven. A single page is just 4. Leave the box empty and you get every page.
- Check the order you wrote. Pages come out in the order you typed them, so 3,1 gives page 3 first and page 1 second. A page written twice is only included once.
- Run and download. You get one PDF containing the pages you asked for, named after the original with -pages added. Open it to confirm you got the right pages.
What this tool does not do
- It produces one PDF containing the selected pages, not one file per page.
- It cannot open password-protected or encrypted PDFs.
- It cannot pull pages from more than one PDF at a time. Split each file, then merge the results.
- It does not renumber anything printed on the pages, and it does not update a table of contents.
- Forms, annotations and unusual page structures may not survive being copied into a new document.
- There is no page preview here, so check the downloaded file before you upload it.
Common questions
Do I get a separate file for each page?
No. This makes one PDF holding the pages you selected. If you want each page as its own file, run the tool once per page — 1, then 2, then 3 — or use PDF to images, which gives you one PNG per page inside a ZIP.
Can I reorder pages with this?
Yes, up to a point. The order you type is the order you get, so entering 3,1,2 rearranges a three-page document. What it cannot do is insert a page from a different file — merge handles that.
Which page numbers should I use?
The PDF's own numbering, where the first sheet is page 1. That does not always match a number printed on the page, because covers, blank sheets and roman-numeral prefaces shift the count.
It says pages need to be within 1 to something.
You asked for a page the document does not have, and the message tells you the highest page number available. A range also has to run forwards: 5-3 is rejected, 3-5 is fine.
It says to use page numbers such as 1-3,5.
Something in the box is not a number, a range or a comma. Spaces around the numbers are fine. Letters, slashes and the word 'to' are not.
My PDF will not open.
Password-protected and encrypted PDFs are not supported. Remove the protection in an app that can already open the file, save a clean copy, and split that.
Why is my two-page extract still a large file?
Because the pages bring their baggage with them. Embedded fonts and full-resolution scans on those pages are copied across, so a short extract from a heavy document is not automatically a small file.