Split PDF
See every page, tick the ones you care about, then keep them, drop them, rotate them, or split each into its own file. No upload, no page limit, no watermark.
Your PDF?Pages are rendered here on your device to make thumbnails. The file is never uploaded. Password-protected PDFs need unlocking first.
Click a page to select it. Rotation is applied to the page you rotate, whether it is selected or not.
Actions
Your original file is never changed.
How to use it
Pick pages visually rather than guessing numbers.
Drop a PDF
Every page is rendered as a thumbnail so you can see exactly what you are choosing.
Select pages
Click thumbnails, or type a range like 1-3, 7. Use the odd and even buttons for double-sided scans.
Choose an action
Keep only what you picked, drop what you picked, or burst the file into one PDF per page.
Split, extract, delete: pick the right one first
These three operations sound interchangeable and produce completely different files, which is why so many people do the job twice. Split gives you one PDF per selected page. Extract gathers the selected pages into a single new PDF. Delete is extract inverted, keeping everything you did not tick.
The rule of thumb is about destinations. If each page is going to a different person, split. If a run of pages is going to one person, extract. If you want almost the whole document minus a couple of pages, delete, because ticking two beats ticking forty-eight.
The common workaround — printing pages 4 to 9 to a new PDF — quietly ruins the file. Printing re-renders every page as a picture, so the text layer disappears. The result cannot be searched, cannot be copied from, is invisible to a screen reader, and is usually several times larger than the pages it came from. Copying page objects, which is what this page does, keeps text as text.
Two things to watch. Password-protected files cannot be read at all until they are unlocked, so open the file with its password and save an unprotected copy first. And interactive extras such as form fields and bookmarks belong to the document rather than to a page, so they do not always survive; check the result before sending a filled form on. For a longer walkthrough, including the macOS Preview and qpdf routes, read how to split a PDF.