Split PDF
In your browser, no upload
one file per page · not re-encoded
Specification
6 rows| Item | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Read from the file itself, not its name | |
| Output | One PDF per page | Numbered after the original’s name |
| Files out | As many as there are pages | Each one is a single-page PDF, downloaded separately |
| Page content | Untouched | Copied as stored — nothing is decoded or drawn again |
| File size | Whatever this device holds | The file is read in this tab; it is never sent anywhere |
| Processed in | This browser | Not sent to a server |
What happens
4What happens, and why
Drop one PDF and every page becomes its own file, listed in order with a download next to each. The page is copied into a new one-page document: its drawing instructions, its fonts and its images are the bytes that were in the file you dropped, so the badge says it was not re-encoded.
Each file carries only what its own page needs. That is why the files together are usually a little larger than the original was — a font or a logo that appeared on every page was stored once in the source and has to be in each of the pages that use it now. The page itself is not bigger or worse; it is only no longer sharing.
The document outline does not come along, for the same reason it cannot survive joining: bookmarks are a tree of links into one file’s objects and each page is now a file of its own. Anything drawn on the page — links, form boxes, annotations — is part of the page and stays with it.
If what you want is a few pages rather than all of them, removing the rest is the shorter way round and keeps them in one document; that is the page next door. Nothing here is uploaded: the file is read in this tab and the pieces are written here.
FAQ
5Does it lower the quality
No, and it cannot: nothing in the pages is decoded. A page in a PDF is a list of drawing instructions plus the fonts and images it uses, and all of that is carried over exactly as it was stored, compression and all. A scan stays the scan it was, at the size it was.
Can I get just pages 3 to 7
Not on this page — it makes one file per page, always. To keep a run of pages together in one document, use “Delete pages from PDF” and remove the ones you do not want; it is the same copying, one file out instead of many.
Why is each page nearly as big as the whole file was
Because a page brings its resources with it. If one photograph or an embedded font is used on every page, the original stored it once; each single-page file now has to carry it. A text-only page splits into a few kilobytes.
Is there a limit on the number of pages
None set here. Every page becomes a file and every file is listed with its own download, so a three-hundred-page document gives three hundred rows — the practical limit is your patience with the downloads folder, not this page.
Is the PDF uploaded
No. The browser reads the file from your disk and writes the new one on this page. There is no upload endpoint on this site, so there is nowhere for the file to go. Nothing about the document is logged either — this page does not know how many pages your file has.