How to split a PDF into multiple files
Cut a long document into equal chunks, or into exactly the sections you define.
Splitting comes up in two quite different situations, and the tool offers a different mode for each.
The first is mechanical: you have a stack of scanned documents in one file and each document is the same length. The second is editorial: you have a report and you want the chapters separated at meaningful boundaries.
The steps
- Upload the document.
- Choose 'every N pages' for equal chunks, or 'custom ranges' to define each part yourself.
- For custom ranges, write something like 1-3, 4-10, 11-20 — each range becomes its own file.
- Run the tool and download the parts individually or as a ZIP.
Every N pages, for regular documents
If you scanned forty two-page invoices into one file, every 2 pages gives you forty invoices. The document is cut into consecutive blocks of the size you specify; if the page count does not divide evenly, the final part is simply shorter.
Every 1 page is the special case that bursts a document into one file per page.
Custom ranges, for meaningful sections
Ranges are written as a comma-separated list, and each entry becomes one output file. Writing 1-3, 5, 8-12 produces three files: pages one to three, page five alone, and pages eight to twelve.
Ranges are taken literally, which is more useful than it sounds. Pages you leave out — page 4 and pages 6-7 in that example — simply do not appear in any output. You can also list the same page in more than one range if two sections genuinely share a page.
Getting the parts back
Each part is a separate PDF with its own download. When a split produces more than one file, you can take them all at once as a ZIP archive rather than clicking through them.
