Splitting a PDF is the opposite of merging: one big file becomes several smaller ones. People do it all the time. A scanner saves twenty receipts as one long PDF, but each receipt has to be filed on its own. A 300-page textbook is too heavy to send, but chapter 4 alone is fine. A form portal wants the mark sheet and the certificate as two separate uploads, while they arrived in one document. This tool cuts a PDF into parts, right in your browser.
There are three ways to split. Every page turns each page into its own PDF, which is handy for scanned receipts, ID cards and single-page certificates. Every few pages makes equal parts, for example two pages per file when every form has a front and a back. By page ranges lets you decide exactly what goes where: type 1-3, 4-6, 7 and you get three files, the first with pages one to three, the second with pages four to six, and the third with page seven only.
Page ranges are forgiving. You can use commas or spaces between parts, write an open end like 8- to mean page eight to the last page, and even type numbers in Hindi or Arabic digits. If something cannot be read, the page tells you which part to fix instead of guessing.
Nothing is re-compressed when you split. Pages are copied exactly as they are, so text stays sharp and searchable and images keep their quality. Your PDF is read and split on your own device, not uploaded, which matters for bank statements, salary slips and medical reports. When there are several files, you can download each one, or all of them at once as a single ZIP file.
A password-protected PDF must be unlocked first, and you need to know its password for that. If you want to keep some pages and throw away the rest in one file, Remove pages may be quicker. To pick pages from different files and arrange them into a new order, use Organize PDF.