Split PDF

Split a PDF or extract pages

Type the pages you want and Quill builds new PDFs from exactly those, leaving the original untouched. Or cut the document into fixed-size chunks, into halves, or into one file per page.

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Each comma-separated part becomes its own PDF, so 1-3, 4-9, 10- gives you three files. Reversed and out-of-range parts are corrected rather than rejected.

How to split a pdf or extract pages

  1. 1

    Drop in the source PDF

    The document is read locally, and its page count is used to clip whatever you ask for.

  2. 2

    Choose how to cut it

    By ranges, every N pages, down the middle, or one file per page.

  3. 3

    Describe the ranges

    Each comma-separated part becomes its own file: 1-3, 7, 10- gives you three PDFs. Overlapping and out-of-range parts are handled rather than rejected.

  4. 4

    Download

    One part comes back as a single PDF; several arrive as a ZIP so you get one download instead of forty.

The range syntax

Commas separate parts and hyphens make spans: 1-3, 7, 10- means pages one to three, page seven, and everything from ten to the end. Leaving the left side off, as in -4, starts at the first page. Backwards spans like 9-5 are read as 5-9, and anything outside the document is clipped rather than throwing an error.

The original is never modified

Extraction builds a new document from copies of the pages you named. The file you opened is left exactly as it was on disk.

Rotation comes with it

If you straightened a sideways scan before extracting, the exported pages keep that correction rather than reverting to the source orientation.

Questions

Single pages (7), spans (1-3), open-ended spans (10- or -4), and any combination of those separated by commas. Out-of-range numbers are clipped to the document and repeats are collapsed.