How to split a PDF into pages, ranges or chapters

Pull the pages you need out of a long PDF, or cut it into single pages or chapters.

Sending a 200-page report when the reader needs ten pages is unkind. Splitting gives you a smaller file with only what matters. Both tools below run in your browser, so the document is never uploaded.

Split by page ranges

Open Split PDF and add your file.
Type the pages you want, for example 1-3, 5, 8-10, or choose Every page for one file per page.
Download the new file, or all the parts together.

Use this to send one chapter, to take a signed page out of a contract, or to break a long scan into parts.

Split by chapters (bookmarks)

If the PDF has bookmarks (the outline you see in the side panel of a PDF viewer), Split by bookmarks makes one PDF for each top-level bookmark and names it after the chapter. You get all of them in one ZIP.

A PDF without bookmarks is told so, and you can use the page-range split instead.

Tips

Page numbers are those of the PDF itself, not the numbers printed on the pages.
Pages are copied unchanged: no watermark, no loss of quality.
Scans split like any other PDF. To read the text of a scan, continue in the chat.

Next: Reorder, rotate and delete pages.