Split PDF

Split a PDF or extract pages

Type the pages you want and Quill builds a new PDF from exactly those, leaving the original untouched. Useful for lifting one signed appendix out of a hundred-page bundle, or cutting a scanned book into chapters.

How to split a pdf or extract pages

  1. 1

    Open the source PDF

    Load the document you want to cut down. The page rail shows what you are working with.

  2. 2

    Open Split / extract

    Find it in the document tools panel, alongside watermarking and page numbering.

  3. 3

    Describe the pages

    Either take every page, or type a range. Pages are collected in ascending order and duplicates are ignored, so overlapping ranges are safe.

  4. 4

    Export the selection

    Download gives you a new PDF containing just those pages, with any rotation you applied carried over.

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.

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