Taking three pages out of a forty-page document
Most of the time you do not want to split a PDF down the middle. You want four specific pages out of something long — the signature page, the two pages the accountant asked for, the appendix everyone actually reads.
This tool works that way round. Give it the pages you want and it builds a new document from exactly those, leaving the original file on your disk untouched.
Two ways to choose pages
Type a range if you already know the numbers: 1-3,5,8-10 pulls pages one to three, page five, and pages eight to ten, in that order. Commas separate selections, hyphens make a run.
Or work visually. Every page is rendered as a thumbnail and you click the ones you want. That is the faster route when you are looking for a particular table or a signature block and cannot remember which page it landed on.
When you need it
Sending a landlord the two pages of a bank statement that show the salary credit, without sending a full month of spending. Pulling one chapter out of a manual to email to a colleague. Extracting the pages of a scanned contract that actually need initialling. Splitting a merged batch back into per-invoice files.
The redaction-adjacent use is worth naming: removing pages is a genuinely safe way to withhold information, unlike drawing a black box over text, which often leaves the text sitting underneath.
Getting the page numbers right
The numbers you type are the PDF's own page positions, counting from one, not whatever numbering is printed on the page. A report whose body starts at printed page 1 on the fourth sheet still has that sheet as page four here. Scroll to the page and note its position in the reader before typing a range.
Order matters too, and it is a feature rather than a quirk: 5,1-3 produces a document with page five first. That is occasionally exactly what you want — putting a signed page in front of the terms it belongs to, for instance — but it surprises people who expected the tool to sort the list for them.
If you are extracting the same range from many files, do them one at a time and rename as you go. Every output arrives with the same default filename, and a downloads folder holding six identically-named files is its own small disaster.
What happens to your files
Every one of these runs in your browser. The file is read from your disk, processed in memory and handed back as a download — there is no upload, no server copy and no account.
The pages you keep are copied byte-for-byte into the new document, so quality, text selection and links all survive the split.
Frequently asked questions
How do I type a page range? Use commas and hyphens: 1-3,5,8-10 means pages one to three, five, and eight to ten. The output follows that order. Note these are the PDF's own page positions counting from one, not the numbers printed on the paper, which often start later.
Can I split into several files at once? The tool builds one new file per run. For several outputs, run it once per range — the original stays untouched each time. Because each run is independent, you can safely produce overlapping selections — the same page can appear in two different outputs.
Does the original file change? No. The file on your disk is never modified; a new document is generated for download. Keeping the source intact is deliberate: if you pick the wrong range, the fix is simply to run it again.
Is removing pages safer than blacking them out? Yes. A removed page is genuinely gone from the new file, whereas a black rectangle drawn over text usually leaves that text selectable underneath. This is why removing pages is the standard advice for withholding information, and drawing black boxes is not.
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