Split PDF Pages

How to split a PDF

Why split a PDF

Long documents are rarely wanted whole. A bank statement runs twelve months when a landlord asked for three. A scanned book has one chapter you actually need. A report has an appendix that belongs to a different team, and a signed contract has one page that has to go to the registrar and nowhere else.

Splitting takes the pages you want and leaves the rest behind — which is often as much about not sending the other pages as it is about sending these ones.

Common uses

• Sharing selectively — send three months of a statement instead of a year.
• Study material — pull one chapter out of a scanned textbook.
• Forms — extract just the page a department asked for.
• Signatures — separate a signed page from the agreement it belongs to.
• Size — a range is smaller than the whole file, which is sometimes the entire point.

What happens to your files

Worth being straight about this, because it differs from most tools on this site. Our word counter and JSON formatter run entirely inside your browser and send nothing anywhere. PDF work is not like that — it has to open and rewrite the document structure, which is more than a browser does reliably across every PDF it might be handed.

So your file is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our server, and the original is deleted as soon as the new file has been produced. The result sits behind a private download link that expires. Nothing is read, indexed or kept for any other purpose.

If a document is confidential enough that it must never leave your machine, use a desktop application instead. That is true of every online PDF tool, not just this one.

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