split pdf
Splitting a PDF means different things depending on the reason: pulling out one specific chapter from a book, breaking a long report into smaller parts to email, or extracting individual pages from a batch-scanned form. This page opens the workbench with the split panel front and center, with four split modes available.
The "by chosen ranges" mode is the right fit here, because the chapters don't all have the same page count.
Each output file is ready to be processed individually by another tool, like OCR or form recognition.
No. Reading, assembling, rotating and splitting the PDFs all happens entirely in your browser, using pdf.js to render the thumbnails and pdf-lib to assemble the output files. No byte of the content is ever sent to a server, which is also why the tool can work with password-protected PDFs without asking anyone but you for the password.
Only when the result has more than one file. If the split produces exactly one output PDF, it downloads directly, without going through a .zip.
Yes, every workbench action (rotate, delete, reorder, duplicate) happens before the split, because the split always works on the current state of the pages on the grid, already reflecting your edits.
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Drop one or several PDF files above to start building the workbench.
All processing happens in your browser: the loaded PDFs, the thumbnails and the assembled output files are never sent to a server. Closing or reloading the tab discards the workbench.