Split PDFs on your computer

Tap the page thumbnails to pick what to extract, into one PDF or one per range. Free, unlimited, and no file ever gets uploaded to a server.

100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.

  1. Upload your PDF - it opens locally on your computer
  2. Tap the thumbnails to pick the pages
  3. Download the result as PDF or ZIP

What Split PDF does

Split PDF takes one document and gives you back the pages you choose, either as a single smaller PDF or as several files, one per range. You pick the pages on a grid of thumbnails or type ranges such as 1-3, 5-7, and OléPDF writes the new files in your browser by copying the original page objects. Nothing is rendered or recompressed, so the extracted pages look exactly like the source.

It covers the everyday cases: pulling the signed page out of a contract, sending a client only the chapter that concerns them, breaking a scanned bundle into one file per document, or turning a long report into a set of separate handouts. There is no account, no upload and no limit on pages or file size beyond the memory of your device.

How to split a PDF

  1. Add the PDF. It opens straight away in the split screen with a thumbnail for every page and all pages selected.
  2. Click the thumbnails to keep or drop pages. The counter shows how many are selected. The presets All pages, None and Every page separately set the selection in one click.
  3. To cut the document into several files at fixed points, type the ranges in Split into ranges: for example 1-3, 5-7, 8-15. Each group becomes one PDF; groups cannot overlap and must be written as closed ranges, so a single page is 4-4 rather than 4.
  4. Tick One PDF per range (downloads as ZIP) when you want separate files from your thumbnail selection. When you use the ranges box it is switched on automatically.
  5. Press Split PDF. One output is downloaded as a PDF with the suffix _split and a timestamp; several outputs come as a ZIP with numbered files inside.

What the split keeps and what it drops

Pages are copied as objects into a fresh document, which is what makes the operation lossless: text stays selectable, fonts and images keep their original resolution and vector graphics are untouched. Because the copy works page by page, elements that live at document level rather than on the pages do not travel.

Privacy: the split happens in your browser

The thumbnails are drawn by the PDF engine bundled with OléPDF and the new documents are written by a local PDF library, both running in the browser tab. The file is never uploaded, no page is sent anywhere and no third-party script is involved. The only thing the browser downloads is OléPDF's own code from its own domain.

That makes the tool suitable for the documents people most often need to cut up: contracts, bank statements, medical records or anything else you would not want on a stranger's server.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Split PDF free?

Yes. Splitting is free and unlimited, with no account, no watermark and no daily cap on the number of documents or pages.

Do I get one file or several?

You decide. Leave the ZIP option off to get a single PDF with the selected pages, or turn it on, or type ranges, to get one PDF per range inside a ZIP.

Why does the ranges box reject a single page number?

Ranges must be closed, like 4-4 for page 4, so that the tool never has to guess what a bare number means. Groups also have to stay within the page count and must not overlap.

Does splitting reduce quality?

No. Pages are copied as vector objects, not converted to images, so text, fonts and pictures are identical to the original.

Will bookmarks and form fields survive?

No. The outline is not copied and form fields lose their interactivity. Flatten a completed form before splitting if its answers must stay visible.

Can I split a password-protected PDF?

Not directly. The tool refuses encrypted files. Open the document in Decrypt PDF, save an unlocked copy and split that one.

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