How to split a PDF or extract specific pages

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Someone sends you a 48-page contract. You only need pages 12 through 15 (the payment terms) as a standalone file to forward to your finance team. The other 44 pages are irrelevant, and you definitely don’t want to send the whole thing.

How to extract pages

  1. Open the PDF splitter
  2. Drop your PDF
  3. Click the pages you need (or type a range like 12-15)
  4. Click “Split & Download”

You get a new PDF with only the pages you selected. The original file stays unchanged.

Three ways to split

Select pages: Click individual page thumbnails. Hold Shift to select a range. Hold Cmd/Ctrl to pick non-consecutive pages. Good for pulling out a few specific pages.

Page range: Type 1-5 or 10-15, 20-25 for multiple ranges. Good when you know exactly which pages you need.

Split all: Every page becomes its own PDF, downloaded as a ZIP. Good for breaking a scanned document into individual records.

When you’d use this

  • Contracts: Extract the signature page or specific clauses to share with someone who doesn’t need the full document
  • Reports: Pull out a single chapter or section from a long report
  • Textbooks and manuals: Grab the pages you need for a meeting or class without carrying the whole thing digitally
  • Scanned documents: Split a batch scan into individual documents (one receipt per file, one form per file)
  • Government forms: Extract the specific form you need from a multi-form PDF package

File size

Extracted pages keep their original quality. A 10-page extract from a 100-page document will be roughly 10% of the original file size, depending on which pages have images.

Privacy

Everything runs in your browser. The PDF is read and split locally using WebAssembly. No upload, no server, no account.

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