Sometimes you don't want the whole PDF — you want page 12 through 15 of a 40-page report, or just the signature page out of a contract, or one chapter out of an e-book. Re-scanning isn't an option and most PDF viewers don't have a clean "save these pages only" feature built in.
How it works
Our Split PDF tool takes one PDF and a page range — a start page and an end page — and gives you back a new PDF containing just that range, in order. If you enter the same number for both the start and end page, you get that single page as its own PDF.
It's worth being precise about what this does: it extracts one range into one new file. If you need three separate chunks out of the same document — say, pages 1-5, pages 10-12, and pages 20-25 as three distinct files — run the tool three times with the same source file and a different range each time. There's no single "split everywhere at once" mode; each run gives you exactly one extracted range.
Finding the right page numbers
Open the source PDF in your browser or PDF viewer first and note the page numbers you actually need — most viewers show "Page X of Y" somewhere in the toolbar. One thing to double check: PDF page numbers count from the very first page of the file, which doesn't always match any page numbers printed on the pages themselves (a document with a cover page and table of contents might have "page 1" printed on what's actually PDF page 3). Go by the viewer's page count, not the printed numbers, if the two don't match.
Using the tool
Upload one PDF (up to 20MB), enter your start and end page, and you'll get a download link for the extracted range along with a quick summary — how many pages the original had, and how many were extracted. If you ask for a range beyond the document's actual page count, you'll get a clear error instead of a broken file.
Try it here: Split PDF.