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✂️ PDF Split

Split a PDF into individual pages or extract a custom page range. Files never leave your device.

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Splitting PDFs and extracting pages for research use

PDF splitting is useful when you receive a combined document — a journal proof, a grant review package, or a merged supplementary file — and need to work with individual sections separately, or when a submission system requires each component as a separate file after you've been working with a combined version.

Common split use cases

Extracting individual figures from a combined figure file for separate submission. Separating reviewer comments from a combined editorial decision letter. Extracting specific chapters from a combined thesis PDF for sharing with collaborators. Creating individual page PDFs from a multi-page poster for printing.

Page range specification

This tool accepts page ranges in standard notation: "1-3" extracts pages 1 through 3, "1,3,5" extracts individual pages. You can create multiple output files from one input by specifying multiple ranges. Page numbers refer to the PDF's actual page numbers — if your document has Roman numeral front matter, page 1 in the PDF may not be page 1 as printed.