A 200-page annual report gets emailed to you, but you only need the financial statements on pages 48 to 72. A merged PDF from a previous project contains three separate contracts — they need to be split back into individual files before archiving. A thesis examiner wants just the methodology chapter, not the full 300-page document.
PDFKits Split PDF extracts the pages you need from any PDF, free, in your browser. Split by page range, extract every page as a separate file, or divide a document at specific page boundaries. The result downloads immediately. Nothing is uploaded to a server — your document is processed locally in your browser using JavaScript, keeping confidential content on your device throughout.
Drag your PDF into the tool. A page count appears immediately, confirming the file loaded. For large documents — a 400-page legal transcript or a 150-page technical manual — loading the page list takes a few seconds. You do not need to wait for a full preview render before setting your split options.
Choose how to split the document. Extract a page range by entering start and end page numbers — for example, pages 48–72 from a 200-page report. Split into every individual page to get one PDF per page. Divide at fixed intervals — every 10 pages — to batch-split a large document into equal chunks. For documents merged from multiple sources, you can specify each section's boundaries to recover the original files.
Click Split. Your browser processes the PDF using pdf-lib, separating the specified pages without re-encoding or quality loss. A single extracted range downloads as one PDF. Multiple ranges or an every-page split download as a ZIP containing numbered files. A 100-page document split into 10-page chunks produces 10 numbered PDFs in about 5–10 seconds. Your original PDF is untouched.
An office administrator receives a single merged PDF from a scanning service containing 80 separate invoices, each 1–3 pages. She splits by page to separate them, then archives each invoice individually in the accounting system.
A law firm's discovery process produces a single 1,200-page PDF of evidence. The paralegal splits it by exhibit ranges — pages 1–47, 48–93, 94–211 — to create individually labeled exhibit files for the court filing.
A publisher has a 500-page manuscript as one PDF and needs to send individual chapters to different editors for review. Splitting the document at chapter boundaries creates clean individual files without retyping any content.
A graduate student downloads a 300-page PhD dissertation to read the methodology chapter (pages 45–78). Splitting extracts just those pages into a standalone PDF — easier to annotate and reference than scrolling through the full document.
Technical drawings arrive as a single 60-page PDF. Different engineering disciplines — structural, mechanical, electrical — each need only their relevant drawing sheets. Splitting by page range routes the right pages to the right teams.
Splitting PDFs is a task that many users need infrequently — making the two-tasks-per-day limit on Smallpdf and iLovePDF's free plans irrelevant for occasional use. PDFKits is the better choice for anyone who splits PDFs regularly, and equally good for one-off uses.
| Feature | PDFKits | Smallpdf | iLovePDF | Adobe Acrobat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free, always | 2 tasks/day free | 2 tasks/day free | $19.99/month |
| Files stay on your device | Yes | No — cloud | No — cloud | No — cloud |
| Split by page range | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Split every page | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily limit | Unlimited | 2/day | 2/day | Unlimited |
For legal, medical, or financial documents, the client-side processing model matters. When a paralegal splits a confidential client file, that file should not be uploaded to a cloud service even temporarily. PDFKits eliminates that risk.
Upload your PDF to PDFKits, enter the page ranges you want to extract, and click Split. Your files download instantly. No signup or server upload required.
Yes. Choose the 'every page' option and PDFKits creates one separate PDF per page, all bundled in a ZIP file for download.
Yes. Enter multiple ranges separated by commas — for example, 1-5, 12, 20-25 — to extract a custom selection of pages into one PDF.
No. Splitting runs entirely in your browser. Your PDF never leaves your device.
No enforced limit. Splitting large documents (500+ pages) may take 15–30 seconds in the browser but works reliably on modern devices.
No. Pages are extracted without re-encoding or quality loss. The output pages are identical to the corresponding pages in the source PDF.
Yes. The tool works in any modern mobile browser. Upload from your device's files app and download the split result directly.
No. Unlock the PDF using PDFKits Unlock PDF first, then split the unlocked version.
Very large PDFs may require a few seconds to load in the browser. Once loaded, splitting any range is fast. If your browser tab crashes, try splitting smaller ranges sequentially.
Split the document first to get individual section PDFs, then use PDFKits Merge PDF to reassemble them in the new order.