Split PDF — Extract Pages, Free & Private
Pull a page range out of a PDF, or split every page into its own file — all in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and your original file never leaves your device.
In short: drop a PDF, type the first and last page you want, and download just that range as a new document. It runs on your device, so nothing is uploaded and there is no page or size limit — and the internal links and form fields inside the range come out working, which is not true of most tools that do this.
- Is it free, and is there a limit?
- Free, with no task limit, no page limit and no size limit. Sejda allows 3 tasks an hour on its free tier and Smallpdf 2 a day; there is no server here, so there is nothing to meter.
- Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
- No. The split happens in your browser, so the document never leaves your device — which matters, because the things people split are contracts, statements and medical records.
- Do links and form fields survive?
- Yes, and this is worth checking elsewhere. Splitting with the usual library call breaks both silently; this page repairs them and says how below.
- Can I extract non-consecutive pages, like 1, 4 and 9?
- No — one continuous range at a time. Run it more than once, or use Organize PDF, which lets you keep any set of pages.
- Can I split into several files at once?
- No. One range per run, one file out. Splitting a book into chapters means one run per chapter.
- Does it change the pages themselves?
- No. The pages you keep are copied across exactly as they were — same text, same images, same quality. Nothing is re-rendered.
How to Split a PDF
Drop your PDF onto the tool, or click to browse and select it.
Extract a page range, or split the entire document into individual page PDFs.
If extracting, enter the start and end page numbers — Convertlo shows the total page count to help.
Get a single PDF for a range, or a ZIP of every page — original quality, ready to share.
Why Use Convertlo to Split PDFs?
- 🔒 100% Private — files never leave your browser, zero server uploads
- 🆓 Free forever — no account, no watermark, no file size cap per session
- ✂️ Extract any range — pull exactly the pages you need into one PDF
- 🗂️ Split everything — every page becomes its own PDF, bundled in a ZIP
- 📄 Original quality preserved — pages copied directly, no re-encoding
- 📱 Works on mobile — works on any device with a modern browser
Features
100% Private
No server. No upload. Your PDF stays on your device the whole time.
Page Range
Extract any range of pages into a new PDF.
Split All Pages
Turn every page into its own PDF, downloaded as a ZIP.
Instant
Splitting completes in seconds for typical documents.
No Quality Loss
PDF-lib copies pages without re-encoding — full original quality.
Mobile-Ready
Works on iPhone, Android, tablet, and desktop.
What splitting normally breaks, and what this repairs
Splitting a PDF looks like the simplest operation there is — keep some pages, drop the rest — and the library call that does it quietly breaks two things every time. This page did too, until September 2026, and most tools still do.
Internal links
A link from a contents page to chapter three is stored as a reference to that page object. When pages are copied into a new document, the destination gets deep-copied along with the link — so the link now points at an orphaned duplicate of chapter three that is not in the file, rather than at the chapter three that is. Measured on a real document: one working link in, zero working links out, even when the target page was inside the range that was kept.
This page records where every internal link pointed before copying anything — the references mean nothing afterwards — and re-points them at the pages that really are in the output. A link to a page you left out is deleted rather than left aimed at whatever now happens to sit at that number, because a link that quietly goes to the wrong page is worse than one that does nothing.
Form fields
A fillable box on the page is a widget; the field it belongs to is a separate object the widget points at. Copy the pages and the widgets come along, but nothing registers the fields — so every reader shows the boxes as decoration. Measured: one fillable field in, zero out. This page follows each widget to its field and registers it, so the extracted pages are still a working form.
Bookmarks
These really are lost, and cannot be recovered this way — so the capability table says No rather than something vaguer. If the bookmarks matter, keep the whole document.
One range at a time, and what to use instead
This tool takes one continuous range: a first page and a last page. That covers the common jobs — pulling one chapter out of a report, taking the signed pages off the end of a contract, extracting a single form from a bundle — and it does them without any interface to learn.
What it does not do is pick scattered pages. If you want pages 1, 4 and 9, or want to drop page 6 from the middle and keep everything else, use Organize PDF instead: it shows every page as a thumbnail and lets you delete and reorder freely. It runs the same repairs, so links and fields survive there too.
And if you want to split a book into one file per chapter, that is one run per chapter here. There is no batch mode, which is honest rather than ideal — but since nothing is uploaded, each run is immediate, and the page keeps your file loaded between them.
Why do it in the browser
Every large PDF site does this on a server, which means your document travels to a machine you do not control so that a few pages can be copied out of it. The limits they impose are the tell: they exist to protect bandwidth and CPU, not to help you.
Checked in September 2026: Sejda’s free tier allows 3 tasks an hour, caps documents at 50 pages and 50 MB. Smallpdf allows 2 tasks a day. iLovePDF allows roughly 1–2 an hour and caps Split at 100 MB. PDF24 is genuinely unlimited and free — and its web version uploads too, though it also ships a desktop app that works locally.
Here the split is a page-copy performed by JavaScript in your own tab. There is nothing to meter, so there are no tasks per hour, no page cap and no size cap; and the documents people bring to a splitter — contracts, bank statements, medical letters, tenancy agreements — never leave the machine they were already on.
Capabilities at a glance
What this tool does and does not do, stated plainly. The “No” rows are the point, not an omission.
| Capability | Supported | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | ||
| Extract one continuous page range | Yes | First and last page; the rest is left behind. |
| Pages copied exactly, not re-rendered | Yes | Same text, images and quality as the original. |
| Internal links inside the range keep working | Yes | Repaired explicitly — the usual library call breaks them. |
| Links to pages you left out | No | Deleted rather than left pointing at whatever now sits at that number. |
| Form fields stay fillable | Yes | Also repaired — they come out unusable otherwise. |
| Bookmarks | No | Lost in the split, and they cannot be recovered this way. |
| Non-consecutive pages (1, 4, 9) | No | One range per run. Organize PDF keeps any set. |
| Splitting into several files at once | No | One range, one output. |
| Input | ||
| Any PDF | Yes | Including scans and forms. |
| An encrypted PDF | No | Open it with Unlock PDF first. |
| Page limit | No | Sejda caps the free tier at 50 pages; there is no cap here. |
| File size limit | No | There is no server to protect. iLovePDF caps Split at 100 MB free. |
| Task limit | No | Smallpdf allows 2 free tasks a day, Sejda 3 an hour. |
| Output | ||
| A normal PDF of just those pages | Yes | Opens anywhere. |
| The original left untouched | Yes | The result is a new download. |
| Watermark | No | Nothing is added to the pages. |
| How it runs | ||
| Nothing is uploaded | Yes | The document never leaves your device. |
| Signup | No | There is no account. |
| Offline use | No | The page and pdf-lib load from the network first. |