Splitting a PDF Into Separate Files or Pages
You have one large PDF — a full thesis, a combined report, a scanned batch of documents — and you need just one section out of it. Splitting extracts exactly the pages you need without touching the rest.
Common reasons to split a PDF
- Extracting a single chapter from a full thesis PDF to share separately
- Pulling one scanned document out of a batch-scanned multi-document file
- Sending just the relevant pages of a large report, rather than the whole thing
- Separating a cover letter from the main manuscript in a combined submission file
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Upload your PDF to Scitero's Split tool — free, no sign up.
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Specify the page range you want to extract, or split into individual single-page files.
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Download — you get just the pages you asked for, as a new PDF.
💡 Check page numbers before splitting
PDF viewers usually display a page counter (e.g., "Page 12 of 340") separate from any printed page number on the page itself. Use the viewer's page counter, not a printed number in the document (like a chapter's internal "page 3"), when specifying which pages to extract.