Split PDF Files Online

Free Online PDF Splitter

Free online PDF splitter extracts the pages needed from a PDF into a new file. Type a page range or select the odd, even or half preset, then download the split PDF.

Made by OnlinePCApps, PDF utilities since 2013

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Why a PDF gets split

Online PDF Splitter for Reports, Scan Batches and Portal Limits

Split PDF files online when one section, one form or one portal-sized part has to leave in its own file. None of these is a defect in the source PDF.

One Section From a Long Report

A hundred-page tender response or a signed contract where only the pricing annexe concerns a particular recipient. Sending the entire document by email is neither practical nor appropriate.

Online PDF splitter takes the page range required and produces a single file holding only those pages.

A Batch Scanned as One File

A scanner produces one document from a stack of unrelated forms and invoices. Every one has to become its own file before it can be archived or distributed.

Type the range for one form in the PDF splitter, split, then repeat for the next. Every run produces one file.

An Output Size Ceiling

A portal accepts submissions only below a set figure. A single large document has to be divided rather than compressed further.

Split the PDF at a page range that lands under the ceiling, then compress the part if it still exceeds it.
How it works

Split PDF Files Online in Three Steps

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Add the PDF

Drop a PDF of two pages or more onto the online PDF splitter panel above, or browse for it. The page count appears once the file loads.

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Set the Pages to Extract

Type page numbers or ranges in the form 1, 4-7. A preset fills the field instead: all pages, first half, second half, odd pages or even pages.

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Split and Download

Click Split PDF, then Download split PDF. The new file carries the pages listed and nothing more, and the source PDF is left as it was.

Page count Shown once the PDF loads
Five presets All pages, halves, odd or even
Predictable name Saved under split_ plus the source name
Split a PDF File Free, nothing to sign up for The Desktop Version For entire directories
One field, five presets

Online PDF Splitter Presets and Page Ranges

Most visits need one range: type the pages to keep and split. The presets cover the common cuts. Extracting, removing and dividing are one operation seen from three sides.

Type Exact Pages

List the pages to keep in the Exact pages field of the PDF splitter, in the form 2, 5, 9-14. One file is produced by the online PDF splitter holding only those pages, in document order.

Use a Range Preset

All Pages, First Half and Second Half fill the field on one click. First Half on a 24-page file is 1-12 and Second Half is 13-24, which suits a report cut into two parts.

Split Odd or Even Pages

The Odd Pages and Even Pages presets list every other page. A duplex scan that reads 1, 3, 5 and then 2, 4, 6 comes apart into its two sides in two runs of the online PDF splitter.

Split Into Several Files

Every run of the PDF splitter writes one file. For chapters, run it once per range: 1-10, then 11-24, then 25-40. Three runs, three files.

Against the field

Online PDF Splitter vs a Hosted Splitter

Free splitters tend to stop at 200 pages, meter runs per day and park the download behind a sign-in. The table puts the online PDF splitter on this page next to that pattern.

This page Here Paginates locally A typical server-side splitter Paginates the document remotely
Page presets Five, plus typed ranges Usually two or three
Page ceiling None imposed Commonly 200 pages when free
Runs allowed per period Unmetered Two per day or three per hour
Largest document accepted 100 MB per file 50 MB on some free tiers
Where the division happens This machine A remote server
Copy held afterwards None exists Deleted after thirty minutes to two hours
Confidential material No restriction Governed by their policy
Effect of geography None Transfer time rises with distance

This sets out how the category behaves in general and names no individual service. The first column describes the online PDF splitter on this page.

Splitter data handling

PDF Splitter Privacy and Data Handling

Retention windows across this category run from thirty minutes to two hours, and daily quotas sit alongside them. Every one is a promise about an operator's own systems, which is a different thing from a document never arriving.

There is no window to apply, since no document arrives. This site has nothing that accepts a file and nothing of ours executes elsewhere. Bring up the browser developer tools and the network panel stays silent throughout rendering and writing.

$ Network panel while dividing a 340-page report
→ external requests ....... 0
→ the PDF ....... 0 requests
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What a split alters

What the Online PDF Splitter Keeps and Rewrites

A split separates things that referenced one another. Page content is untouched. Structure across the cut is resolved or dropped. For the unseen parts, read what a PDF keeps after an edit or redaction.

What a Split Keeps and What It Changes CARRIED THROUGH UNCHANGED RESOLVED OR REWRITTEN Page content Page order Page size and rotation External links Form field values Document metadata Internal links renumbered, or dropped if the target left Bookmarks kept only where the target stayed Tagged structure truncated at the boundary Digital signatures invalidated, as with any rewrite Attachments placed in the first output Contents pages text stays, links follow their targets
ElementEffectDetail
Page contentcopied verbatimEvery drawing instruction, font and image is transferred as it stands. The PDF splitter never re-encodes, so fidelity is untouched. How a PDF stores text shows the mechanism from the inside.
Page orderpreservedPages keep their relative sequence in the PDF splitter output. Reordering is a job for the online PDF organizer, not the splitter.
Page size and rotationcarried per pageEvery page retains its own dimensions and rotation, so a mixed document splits without normalising anything.
Bookmarkskept where the target survivesAn outline entry pointing at a page inside the same output file is retained. One pointing outside it is dropped rather than left dangling.
Internal linksrewritten or removedA cross-reference to a page in the same file is renumbered. A reference to a page that ended up elsewhere cannot be resolved and is removed.
Contents pagestext survives, links may notA table of contents remains visible as text. Its links work only for entries whose target stayed in the same file.
External linkscarried unchangedA hyperlink aimed at a web address or a mailbox is untouched, because its target was never inside the document.
Form fieldscarried with the pageAn AcroForm field travels with the page it sits on. Calculations referencing a field on a page in another file will not resolve.
Digital signaturesinvalidatedA signature certifies the entire document. Every output of a split is a new document, so no signature survives the operation.
Tagged structurecarried per pagePDF/UA tags attached to page content are retained. A structure element spanning a split point is truncated at the boundary rather than rebuilt on either side.
Document metadatacopied to the outputTitle, author and keyword fields travel with the new file. Run the online PDF splitter twice and both outputs carry them.
Attachmentscopied to the outputAn embedded object attached at document level has no page to travel with, so it is placed in the output file whatever range was typed.

Where the behaviour is specified

PDF is an open standard held by ISO. A split touches the page tree, the named destination table and the outline hierarchy, which the references below set out.

ISO 32000-1 Defines the page tree, the named destination table and link annotations, which together decide what a cross-reference can still point at. PDF 1.7 reference Available without charge from Adobe under an arrangement with ISO. Most implementations are built from this edition. PDF/UA, ISO 14289 The only accessibility standard written for this format. It defines the tagged structure that a division truncates at the boundary rather than repairing. Library of Congress A preservation reference. Records the structures a document must keep if it is to remain usable in decades to come.

Named destinations are covered by the PDF specification. A link into another output has no destination left to renumber towards. What a signed PDF proves explains why a signature cannot follow the pages either.

Before splitting

PDF Splitter Notes Before Splitting a Document

None of the four stops a split, but every one alters the outcome. The reason and the right sequence sit under every card before the PDF splitter runs.

Encrypted Documents

A file carrying a user password will not paginate while that password is unknown.
Owner restrictions may allow viewing while refusing the page extraction a split requires.
Limit: A password-protected file will not load. Take the password off with the online PDF unlocker, then split. Any tool advertising a way past encryption is describing a different operation.

Signed Documents

A signature covers the entire document so it cannot survive a split.
Every output is a new document to any verifier.
Note: Run the PDF splitter first and sign every output that needs certifying.

Linked Contents Pages

A contents page links to page numbers within one document.
Once those targets sit in other files the links have nowhere to resolve to and are removed.
Note: Check where the PDF splitter range falls relative to the contents. Cutting after the index keeps its links intact.

Very Large Files

A 100 MB cap applies to the file, checked the moment it is added.
The page count is read in the browser before the range field appears, so a long PDF takes a moment to load.
Limit: 100 MB per file. A heavier PDF goes through the online PDF compressor before it will load here.

Cut After the Index, Not Through It

Where a contents page meets a split point, the links survive only if their targets stay in the PDF splitter output. Placing the first cut after the index keeps it intact and useful.

An index left in the first file still lists pages that now live elsewhere, so the text remains even where the links do not.

Split Before Compressing

Where a size ceiling meets several outputs, running the PDF splitter first and compressing every result separately with the online PDF compressor gives a better outcome than compressing one large file and hoping it fits.

Compressing after a split applies one setting to every output, including those that were already small enough.
Desktop edition

Desktop PDF Splitter for Entire Folders

The online PDF splitter has two boundaries, a 100 MB file and one output per run. Splitting a directory of PDFs under one rule is what the desktop edition exists for.

Where the Desktop Version Fits

The online PDF splitter takes one PDF per run and writes one output file. Several hundred pages is routine within the 100 MB cap.

Paginating from disk on demand is what the desktop version does, so length ceases to be a factor.

Online splitter100 MB per file
Desktop toollimited by disk
No network use

Nothing is contacted after setup, which suits closed networks and regulated environments.

No memory ceiling

Only the pages in view are read from disk, so the length of the source ceases to matter.

Folder-level batches

One rule covers an entire directory, producing a named output set per source file.

Built for volume

A directory of sources divided under one rule, past what a single tab can render.

Repeatable rules

Save a mode and its parameters, then apply the same division to future documents.

Runs disconnected

No network access is needed once installed, which suits controlled environments.

About the Desktop Version Trial included · Windows 10 upward $39 once · nothing recurring · 30 days to return it
Detail

Online PDF Splitter Questions

The online PDF splitter extracts the pages you list from a PDF into a new file. You add the PDF, type page numbers or ranges or take a preset, then click Split PDF. The download is named split_ plus the source file name. No account is needed and nothing is stamped on the pages.
Splitting divides one document into several outputs. Extracting produces a single new document holding only the pages chosen. Removing is extraction seen from the other side: keep everything except the unwanted pages. The PDF splitter here works by extraction, one output per run, so all three come down to the range you type.
By listing the ones to keep rather than the ones to discard. Removing pages 8, 15 and 18 to 20 from a twenty-page file means typing 1-7, 9-14, 16-17 into the online PDF splitter. The result is the same document without them, and your source is left untouched. This is the usual way of clearing blank pages from a scan or dropping a cover sheet.
One page per run of the PDF splitter. Type a single page number, split, download, then repeat for the next. There is no interval mode here, so a batch of receipts scanned into one file takes one run per receipt.
Yes. The First Half and Second Half presets do it in two runs. On a 120-page file, First Half fills the field with 1-60 and Second Half with 61-120. For four parts, type the ranges yourself: 1-30, 31-60, 61-90 and 91-120, one run per part.
Select the Odd Pages or Even Pages preset in the PDF splitter. Double-sided scanning is the usual reason: some scanners write every front page first and every back page afterwards, leaving a file that reads 1, 3, 5 and then 2, 4, 6. Two runs of the online PDF splitter give you both sides in separate files.
Five: All Pages, First Half, Second Half, Odd Pages and Even Pages. Every preset fills the same Pages to extract field, and you can edit the result or type your own list in the form 1, 4-7, 12.
The online PDF splitter sets no page ceiling. Some free tiers stop at 200 pages. The limit here is 100 MB per file, and a longer PDF takes a moment to load while the page count is read.
No. Both pagination and division execute inside the browser, wherever the file happens to sit. Nothing here is able to receive a document. Open the developer tools with the network view visible during a split and that is confirmed.
Yes. Type the page number alone in the Exact pages field and click Split PDF. The output contains that page only, with its original dimensions, rotation and content unchanged.
Several ranges in one run go into one file. Typing 1-10, 25-40 produces a single PDF holding pages 1 to 10 and 25 to 40 in order. For a separate file per range, run the online PDF splitter once per range.
The contents page remains readable text in the PDF splitter output. Its links resolve only for entries whose target pages stayed in the same file. Links pointing to pages you left out are removed rather than left broken.
Bookmarks whose target page is inside the output are retained. Those pointing at pages you left out are dropped, because an outline entry with nothing behind it is worse than no entry.
An AcroForm field travels with the page it sits on and keeps its value. Where a calculation refers to a field on a page you left out, that calculation cannot resolve.
No. A signature certifies an entire document, and every output of a split is a new document. The signature field may still show, but a verifier will reject it. Sign the split file afterwards, not the source beforehand.
No. The pages move across with their drawing instructions, fonts and images exactly as stored. Text stays selectable, vector artwork stays sharp and your photos keep the compression they arrived with. Nothing is re-rendered.
It will not load until the password is removed, because the pages cannot be read without it. Documents carrying owner restrictions may display while refusing the page extraction a split depends on. Take the password off with the online PDF unlocker first, then come back to the PDF splitter.
Not on the PDF splitter here. There is no size mode. Split at a page range that lands under the portal limit, then run the output through the online PDF compressor if it still exceeds it.
Type the range for one form, split, download, then type the next. If every form has the same page count the PDF splitter ranges are easy to predict: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9. The page count shown after loading tells you where the last one ends.
Any current browser. Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge cover Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. The same page opens on your Android or iOS device. No installer is involved.
No. The PDF splitter reads the source and writes the selected pages to a new file, so the original remains exactly where it was. Discard the output and nothing is lost.
No. The online PDF splitter adds no watermark and applies no task cap or trial window. What you download is the split PDF and nothing else.
A static page whose work runs on the visitor's own hardware costs very little to serve, and no document is received or stored at this end. The desktop edition covers directory-level and oversized work, and that revenue funds the browser tools.
More apps

More Tools to Work With PDF Files

Every tool below opens in the same tab as the online PDF splitter, with nothing to install. The split file can be merged, compressed, reordered or locked without leaving the site.

Merge PDF
Online PDF merger to recombine the outputs into one file.
Compress PDF
Online PDF compressor for a split file that still runs heavy.
Organize PDF
Online PDF organizer to reorder pages, since the splitter never does.
PDF to Image
Online PDF to image converter to save pages as pictures instead.
Add Page Numbers
Add page numbers online before the range is cut.
OCR PDF
Online OCR to PDF to recognise the words on a scan.
PDF Locker
Online PDF locker to put a password on the split file.
All PDF Tools
The full list of online PDF tools on the site.
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Who Maintains This Online PDF Splitter

OnlinePCApps Documents Team

PDF structure work since 2013

Written and checked by Last reviewed September 2026
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This company has built file format software since 2013, beginning on the desktop with tools that parsed document structures directly rather than delegating to a library. The same discipline runs the online PDF splitter: the page count is read in the browser, one range or preset is taken and one conformant file is written with the pages listed.

Specifications worked from

ISO 32000 · Page tree Named destinations Outline hierarchy FileReader API Canvas rendering

What it is checked against

Reports carrying a linked contents page, to confirm dangling references are removed rather than left Documents with bookmarks whose targets fall on both sides of a cut Forms whose field calculations reference pages in other outputs Scanned batches of uneven length, divided by stated ranges Files with damaged page trees, where a clear failure is required instead of partial output Outputs opened in Acrobat and Preview to confirm links behave as documented
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Nothing to install and nothing to register. Type the pages, click Split PDF in the online PDF splitter and download the new file.

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