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Split PDF — Extract Pages

Drop a PDF, pick a range or split every page. Nothing leaves your browser.

Splitting a PDF is not re-rendering — it is copying. A PDF stores each page as a node in an internal page tree, and each node points at the fonts, images, and vector content it needs. This tool copies the page objects you select, along with everything they reference, into a fresh document. Because nothing is rasterized or re-compressed, the extracted pages are pixel-identical to the originals: text stays selectable, fonts stay embedded, and vector graphics stay sharp. The whole operation runs in your browser — the file is never uploaded.

Drop a PDF here, or

One PDF, up to 64 MB. Stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

How to use

  1. Drop your PDF

    Drag a PDF (up to 64 MB) onto the dropzone or click to choose one. The tool reads its page tree locally and shows the file name, page count, and size.

  2. Choose a split mode

    Pick “Extract page range” to pull one contiguous run of pages into a single new PDF, or “Split every page” to turn each page into its own one-page file (up to 100 pages).

  3. Set the range

    In range mode, enter From and To page numbers. They are 1-based and inclusive, exactly as a PDF reader displays them — From 3, To 7 extracts five pages.

  4. Split and download

    Click the button. Range mode produces one download; every-page mode builds each single-page PDF in sequence and lists an individual download button per page.

Frequently asked questions

Does my PDF get uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is opened with JavaScript (the pdf-lib library) directly in your browser, and the output PDFs are assembled in memory on your machine. There is no server request carrying your document, so Convertitive never sees its contents.
Do the extracted pages lose any quality?
No. Splitting copies the original page objects — fonts, images, and vector drawing instructions — byte-for-byte into the new file. Nothing is rendered to pixels or re-compressed, so the output pages are exactly as sharp as the source.
Can I split an encrypted or password-protected PDF?
Not directly. If the PDF is encrypted, the tool cannot parse its page tree and will show an error instead of producing broken output. Open the file in a PDF reader with the password, save an unprotected copy, and split that.
How does the page numbering work?
Page numbers are 1-based and the range is inclusive at both ends — the same convention every PDF viewer uses. From 1, To 1 extracts just the first page; From 3, To 7 extracts pages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 (five pages total).
Why do the pages download individually instead of as a ZIP?
Bundling into a ZIP would mean shipping an extra compression library to your browser for every visitor, for a marginal convenience. Individual downloads keep the tool small and fast, and most splits only need a handful of pages anyway. Split-every-page mode is capped at 100 pages for the same reason.
Does extraction keep links, annotations, and bookmarks?
Anything attached to the page itself survives: link rectangles, highlights, form fields, and other page-level annotations are part of the page object and travel with it. Document-level structures — bookmarks (the outline panel), attachments, and metadata like the title — belong to the old document as a whole and are not carried into the new file.

About

What “copying a page” actually means inside a PDF

A PDF is a graph of numbered objects. The page tree is a hierarchy of /Pages nodes whose leaves are /Page objects; each leaf points at a content stream (the drawing instructions) and a resource dictionary listing the fonts, images, and graphics states those instructions use. Extracting a page means walking that graph from the page object outward, copying every object it transitively references into a new document, and renumbering the references so they stay consistent. That is why the operation is lossless — the copied objects are the original bytes, just relocated — and also why a one-page extract can be surprisingly large if the source embeds a big font subset or shared image that the page touches.

When splitting a PDF is the right move

The classic case is a signed contract: you need to send page 14 — the signature page — to accounting without circulating the other 40 pages of terms. Range extraction pulls exactly that page into a clean standalone file. The other common case is a scanner batch: office scanners often produce one long PDF containing many unrelated documents, and split-every-page (or a few range extractions) separates them back into individual files you can name and file properly. Because everything runs locally, both cases work fine on confidential material — HR letters, medical records, legal filings — that you would not want passing through a third-party server.

Sources & references

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