Split PDF
Separate a PDF into ranges, single pages or fixed-size chunks.
Or drop one anywhere on this page
What to know about Split PDF
Break a large PDF into smaller documents. Split by page range, pull out individual pages, or divide the file evenly every few pages. TryToPDF reads the document on your device to check how many pages it has, and the split itself happens there too — the file is never uploaded.
Three ways to divide a document, because the reason for splitting one is rarely the same twice. Ranges suit a bank statement that should become twelve months. Individual pages suit pulling one signed appendix out of a bundle. An even split every few pages suits a scan that arrived as a single long file.
The pages you get back are the pages you put in. Splitting copies them rather than re-rendering, so quality, selectable text and links all survive intact, and every resulting document downloads together rather than one at a time.
A range beyond the last page is refused rather than quietly trimmed, because silently returning fewer pages than you asked for is the kind of helpfulness that costs somebody a document.
How to split a PDF
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Open your PDF
Drop the file in. TryToPDF reads it on your device and tells you how many pages it contains.
- 2
Choose how to split
Type page ranges such as 1-5, 6-12, list individual pages, or split automatically every N pages.
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Download the parts
Take the resulting files one at a time, or download all of them together as a ZIP.
What Split PDF accepts and produces
- Input
- One PDF, plus the ranges, pages or interval you want to split on.
- Output
- Several PDFs — by page range, by individual page, or an even split every few pages — downloaded together.
- Limits
- Splitting cannot recover pages that are not there; a range beyond the last page is refused rather than silently trimmed.
- Offline
- Yes, completely. Splitting copies pages and needs no engine beyond the page itself.
Why Split PDF here
- Page count read locally, so you know what you are working with
- Split by range, by selection, or evenly every N pages
- Download parts individually or as a single ZIP
- Bookmarks and links are remapped to the new page numbering
Where your file goes
Nowhere. This tool runs inside your browser, and the page is served with a policy that forbids it from sending your document anywhere. You can confirm that yourself: open your browser’s developer tools, watch the Network tab, and process a file.
Questions
Can I split a PDF into single pages?
Yes. Set the split mode to every 1 page and each page becomes its own PDF, delivered together as a ZIP.
Is my document uploaded to be split?
No. The document is read and split by an engine running inside your browser. You can confirm this by opening your browser's developer tools and watching the Network tab while the split runs — no request is made.
Will splitting reduce the quality of my pages?
No. Splitting copies pages across without re-encoding them. The pages in the output are byte-for-byte the same content as the original.
What is the largest PDF I can split?
This depends on your device's memory rather than a limit we impose. TryToPDF checks the file against your device's capability first and tells you if it is likely to be too large, instead of failing partway through.
How do I pull out a single page?
Enter that page number on its own, for example 7. You get a one-page PDF containing exactly that page.
Can I split a password-protected PDF?
Not while it is protected. TryToPDF detects the password first and stops rather than producing an unusable file. Remove the protection using the document's password, then split the unlocked copy.
What does splitting every N pages do?
It divides the document into equal chunks. Every 3 pages on a ten-page document gives you four files: pages 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and a final file with page 10. The last chunk is whatever is left over.
Do the split files keep bookmarks and links?
Bookmarks and links that point to pages inside a chunk are carried across and renumbered to match. Ones that pointed to pages in a different chunk have nothing left to point at and are dropped. Nested bookmarks are flattened to a single list in each part.
Worth reading about Split PDF
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- Why a scan will not compress below 100 KBYour compressor hit its floor and the scan is still too big. What decides the size of a scanned PDF, and the fix that works when compression cannot.
- Your PDF is too large to emailGmail, Outlook and corporate servers each cut off at a different size, and encoding inflates your file in transit. The real limits, and four ways past them.
- An alternative to iLovePDF and SmallpdfiLovePDF, Smallpdf and Adobe all process your document on their servers. Here is what that means in practice, where it is genuinely better, and where it is not.
- PDF work for teachersAssembling worksheets, splitting a scanned pile of submissions, and keeping printing costs down. The PDF jobs that come up in a classroom, done quickly.