How to Split a PDF for Free
Splitting a PDF usually means one of two things: pulling out a few specific pages (an invoice from a bundled statement, a single chapter from a report), or breaking an entire document into one file per page. Here's how to do either in a few seconds, without installing anything.
Open the Split PDF tool
Go to the Split PDF page. No account, no software to install.
Add your PDF file
Drag and drop it onto the page, or click “Browse files”. Every page is shown as a thumbnail.
Pick what you need
To extract specific pages, click each thumbnail you want (in any order — they're combined in their original page order in the result), then click “Extract”. To break the whole document apart instead, click “Split every page into a separate file” — no page selection needed.
Download the result
Extracting selected pages downloads a single PDF. Splitting every page downloads a ZIP file containing one PDF per page.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I select pages in a different order than they appear?
- You can click them in any order — the extracted PDF always keeps the pages in their original document order, not the order you clicked them.
- What's the difference between “Extract” and “Split every page”?
- “Extract” builds one new PDF containing only the pages you selected. “Split every page into a separate file” ignores any selection and produces a ZIP with every page of the document as its own individual PDF.
- Is there a limit to how many pages I can split?
- There's no explicit page limit — the only constraints are the 100 MB file size limit and your device's available memory for very large documents.
- Does splitting reduce PDF quality?
- No — pages are copied as they are, without re-encoding or compressing anything.