Split a PDF in your browser
Click the pages where each new file should start, or split every page. It all runs on your device, nothing uploaded.
Drop a PDF, or click to choose
You will see every page. Click where each new file should start.
Need to write on the pages too? The PDF editor adds text, signatures and highlights.
How to split a PDF
- Drop your PDF onto the box above, or choose it from your device.
- Click each page where a new file should start, or pick a preset: each page, two halves, or every few pages.
- Check the grid: each new file is marked on its first page, with its pages listed below.
- Download each file, or all of them together as one zip.
Split, extract or delete: which do you need?
These three jobs sound alike but do different things, and mixing them up is the most common reason people end up with the wrong file.
Splitting breaks one PDF into several: a file per page, a file per chunk, or files that start wherever you choose. The whole document still exists, just in pieces.
Extracting keeps only the pages you choose and puts them in one new PDF. On this page you extract by cutting around them: click page 2 and page 5, then download only the file that holds pages 2 to 4.
Deleting is the opposite: it removes the pages you name and keeps the rest. If that is what you are after, use Delete PDF pages instead. Splitting never throws pages away; it only rearranges them into new files.
How it works, and why nothing is uploaded
A PDF engine runs inside this page, in your browser. When you choose a file, the browser reads its bytes into memory on your own device. The engine writes the pages you asked for into new PDF files and hands them back to you as downloads.
There is no upload step in that sequence, because there is nowhere to upload to: the tool has no server that receives files. Your PDF, and even its name, never leaves your device, so a flaky connection, a slow link, or a server’s retention policy simply do not apply. Once the page has loaded, you can turn off the network and splitting still works.
Pages are copied as-is, without re-encoding, so each output keeps the original page content at its original quality.
No upload, compared
Most popular web splitters send your file to their servers to do the work. They encrypt it in transit and delete it afterwards, which is reasonable, but the file still leaves your device. An in-browser split never sends it at all.
| Question | This tool | Typical web splitter |
|---|---|---|
| Where the split runs | Your browser | Their servers |
| File leaves your device | No | Yes, over HTTPS |
| File stored on a server | No | Temporarily, then deleted |
| Works offline after load | Yes | No |
| Sign-in to download | No | Sometimes |
What a split keeps
Each output is a real PDF containing the pages you selected, at the original size and quality, with no compression and no re-rendering. Every page lands in exactly one file, in its original order.
Output files keep your file’s name and say which pages they hold: splitting report.pdf gives report-pages-1-3.pdf, report-pages-4-8.pdf and so on, in page order. Download each one on its own, or all of them together as one zip file.