Or choose them. Files are processed in this tab and never uploaded to any server.
Send only the signed page of a forty-page agreement, keep chapter three of a manual, or break a scanned batch into one file per document. Type the pages the way you would in a print dialog — 1-3,5,8- — and choose whether they become one new PDF, one PDF per range, or equal parts of a fixed length. Pages are copied without re-rendering, so the extracted file is exactly as crisp and searchable as the original.
How it works
- Ranges accept single pages, spans, open ends (8- runs to the last page, -3 starts at the first) and reversed spans like 5-1, which reorder the pages.
- Extract mode writes one PDF of the selected pages; range mode writes a file per comma-separated group; the N-pages mode chunks the whole document, or just the selection.
- Output files are named after the source and the pages they hold, such as report-p3-7.pdf, so a batch of downloads stays in order.
Where your data goes
Nowhere. This tool runs entirely in your browser: the text you paste is processed by the page and is never transmitted to a server or written to a log.
This tool is free and needs no account. Its results exist only in your open page and are not saved anywhere.
What it costs
This tool is free, with no sign-in and no points.
Common questions
- Why is each extracted file almost as large as the original?
- Pages often share resources — an embedded font, a background image — and pdf-lib copies whatever each page references. A two-page extract from a document whose every page uses the same 5 MB font still carries that font once. Compressing afterwards is a separate job.
- Can I split every page into its own file?
- Yes: choose the every-N-pages mode with 1 page per file. A 300-page document then produces 300 downloads, so for very long files it is usually more convenient to extract just the ranges you need.
- What about password-protected PDFs?
- They are refused with an explanation. pdf-lib reads the file structure but cannot decrypt content streams, so splitting an encrypted file would produce empty pages. Save an unprotected copy from a PDF reader first.
The open-source behind it
This tool runs on Hopding/pdf-lib, released under MIT. If you need the same behaviour inside your own program, that is the library to reach for.
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