Split PDF
Extract pages by range, in custom order, or pull out all odd or even pages into a new PDF. Nothing is uploaded.
FAQ
Can I extract only some pages?
Yes. Enter a range such as 1-3,5,7-9 and only those pages are exported, in the order you typed.
How do I split a PDF into single pages?
Use the odd and even page presets to split it in two halves, or extract pages one range at a time for individual files.
Does splitting reduce quality?
No. Selected pages are copied into a new document without recompression.
About this tool
Pulls selected pages out of a PDF into a new document. Three ways to use it: type a range such as 1-3,5,7-9, use the odd / even buttons to split a document in two, or list individual pages in the order you want.
Output order follows your input, not the original document. Typing 3,1,2 puts page 3 first and page 2 last - which is how you reorder a report or move an appendix to the front. Repeated page numbers are kept only once.
Extraction does not re-compress either: page objects are copied as they are, so quality, fonts and vectors are unchanged; only the unwanted pages are dropped. That also means the output size is not simply a fraction of the original - it equals the real size of the pages you kept, and shared resources can make it larger than expected.
Practical limits:
- Ranges must be valid: page numbers have to fall within 1 to the total page count, and a malformed or out-of-range entry raises an error instead of silently truncating. A reversed range such as
5-3is read as3-5. - Encrypted PDFs cannot be extracted: the tool asks you to remove the password first, because the content streams are still encrypted and a forced copy yields a document that will not open.
- One file per extraction: this tool always produces a single PDF. Splitting into one file per page means extracting page by page; for a bulk export,
qpdf --split-pagesor a desktop tool is the better fit.
The output is always saved as extracted.pdf.