Split PDF files online
Pull a specific range of pages out of a PDF, or break a whole document into individual one-page files. Choose a mode, set your pages, and download the result. Everything happens in your browser, so your documents are never uploaded.
How to use Split PDF
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Add your PDF
Drag a PDF into the drop area, or click to choose one from your device. The tool reads its page count.
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Choose a mode
Pick 'Extract a range' to keep specific pages, or 'Split all pages' to separate every page.
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Set your pages
For a range, enter the start and end page. For split-all, there's nothing else to set.
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Download
Download the new PDF, or a ZIP of single-page PDFs. No watermark, no sign-up and no upload.
Two ways to split, for two different jobs
Splitting a PDF can mean two quite different things, so this tool does both. The first mode extracts a range of pages — say pages 3 to 8 — into a brand-new PDF, which is perfect when you only need one chapter, a single section, or a handful of pages from a much larger file. The second mode breaks the entire document apart, turning every page into its own separate one-page PDF and bundling them together in a single ZIP archive for easy downloading. Between them these two modes cover almost every reason you would ever need to split a PDF, whether you want to keep just a slice of a document or fully explode it into its individual pages. You pick the mode that matches the task and the tool handles the rest in a couple of clicks. Thinking about it as a choice between 'keep a slice' and 'separate everything' makes the decision easy: if you want a smaller document that holds only the pages you care about, extract a range; if you want each page to stand alone as its own file, split them all. Both produce ready-to-use files immediately, with no need to open a separate PDF editor or reassemble anything by hand afterward.
Extract exactly the pages you need
Large PDFs are often mostly noise when you only care about a few pages. A 90-page report might contain a single summary you want to share; a scanned bundle might hold one form you need to send on; a contract might have just one appendix worth keeping. Rather than forwarding the whole heavy file and asking people to scroll to the right place, you can extract precisely the range you want into a clean, compact PDF that contains nothing else. The tool reads how many pages your document has and lets you enter a start and end page, then produces a new file with just that span. The original is left untouched, so you always keep your full document while sharing only the part that matters.
Burst a document into single pages
Sometimes you need every page as its own file. Splitting a document into single pages is invaluable when each page is really a separate item — individual certificates, tickets, invoices, or scanned pages that need to be filed, renamed or routed separately. Instead of doing this by hand, the split-all mode creates one PDF per page in a single pass and packages them into a ZIP archive so you can download everything at once and unzip it into a tidy folder. The files are numbered in order with zero-padded names, so they sort correctly and stay in the original sequence. What would be a tedious, error-prone manual chore becomes a single click, no matter whether the document has five pages or five hundred. The ZIP keeps everything together so nothing gets lost between the download and your folder.
Private and free — nothing is uploaded
PDFs are where the most sensitive documents tend to live: contracts, bank statements, medical records, identity documents, legal filings and confidential reports. Uploading those to an online service just to split them means handing your private data to someone else's server, often with no real guarantee about what happens to it afterward. In1 avoids that entirely by doing all the work in your browser. Your file is read into memory, split locally, and offered straight back to you as a download — not a single byte is transmitted, stored or logged anywhere, and there is no account to create. Because the processing is local there is also no file-size cap from a pricing tier and no watermark added to your pages. It is the privacy of a desktop application with nothing to install.
Who needs to split PDFs?
The need shows up constantly in everyday document work. Office workers extract a single section from a long report to circulate to a team. Accountants and freelancers separate a combined scan of receipts or invoices into individual files for bookkeeping. Teachers and students pull specific pages out of a textbook scan or a handout. HR teams split a batch of signed forms into one file per employee. People dealing with applications extract just the pages a form asks for, rather than submitting an entire document. Anyone who has ever scanned a stack of paper into one giant PDF eventually needs to break it back apart. Whatever the situation, the goal is the same: get exactly the pages you want, as either one trimmed PDF or a set of single-page files — quickly, privately and for free. Splitting is also a natural companion to merging: you might break a big scan into single pages, drop the ones you don't need, and recombine the rest into a fresh document. Because the whole process runs locally and leaves your original untouched, you can experiment freely — try a range, check the result, and split a different way if it isn't quite what you wanted, all without ever risking the source file.
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